Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
ES
was an important member of the modernist movement in England. She was primarily a poet and secondarily a literary critic, though her personal polemics, biographies, anthologies, letters, and autobiography all reflect her unique personality and power as a literary stylist.
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Education
Rumer Godden
RG
's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell
's Troy Park and Façade...
Leisure and Society
Rumer Godden
With books hard to come by, RG
read and re-read those she had, often sent her by relatives and often new publications. She called Austenexactly what I need and likened herself to Emma.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
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Textual Production
Rumer Godden
RG
was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
or Vita Sackville-West
had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took...
Literary responses
H. D.
HD's prose fictions met with less critical success than the poetry which she had published hitherto. Their word-play, symbolic structures, and manipulation of myth were seen as arbitrary, as distractions from rather than as elements...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Nina Hamnett
This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England,
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate.
38
and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...
Friends, Associates
Nina Hamnett
She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with...
Occupation
Nina Hamnett
Several of old friends (including Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
) sat for Hamnett for their portraits. Edith Sitwell's portrait especially attracted a good deal of comment.
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.
98-9, 104-5
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
Literary responses
Nina Hamnett
Crowley's counsel called the stories indecent, vulgar, and ignorant, and demanded that all copies already sold should be recalled and destroyed.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
4
NH
then filed an affidavit saying that the stories were true according to...
Residence
Susan Hill
SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
139
During her childhood she enjoyed visiting the Scarborough home of the SitwellOsbert SitwellSacheverell Sitwell
s; the family of poets and artists left...
Friends, Associates
Aldous Huxley
Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones,
Between 1921 and 1929 AH
published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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He also published poems in Wheels, the experimental poetry series edited by Edith Sitwell
Friends, Associates
Storm Jameson
Jameson met Romer Wilson
, Charles Morgan
, and J. W. N. Sullivan
through her Knopf
connections. By about 1924 she and Edith Sitwell
had visited each other's homes. Jameson felt that in spite of...
Timeline
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Texts
Sitwell, Edith. The Canticle of the Rose / Selected Poems, 1920-1947. Macmillan, 1949.
Sitwell, Edith. The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell. Duckworth, 1930.
Sitwell, Edith. The English Eccentrics. Faber and Faber, 1933.
Bryher, and Edith Sitwell. The Fourteenth of October. Pantheon, 1952.
Sitwell, Edith. The Mother: and Other Poems. Blackwell, 1915.
Sitwell, Edith. The Outcasts. Macmillan, 1962.
Sitwell, Edith. The Pleasures of Poetry; A Critical Anthology. Duckworth, 1932.
Sitwell, Edith. The Queens and the Hive. Macmillan, 1962.
Sitwell, Edith. The Shadow of Cain. J. Lehmann, 1947.
Sitwell, Edith. The Sleeping Beauty. Duckworth.
Sitwell, Edith. The Song of the Cold. Macmillan, 1945.
Sitwell, Edith. The Wooden Pegasus. Blackwell.
Sitwell, Edith. Troy Park. Duckworth.
Sitwell, Edith, and Osbert Sitwell. Twentieth Century Harlequinade, and Other Poems. Blackwell, 1916.
Sitwell, Edith. Victoria of England. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels. B. H. Blackwell.
Sitwell, Edith et al., editors. Wheels. B. H. Blackwell, 1921.
Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels, 1917, a Second Cycle. B. H. Blackwell, 1917.
Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels, 1918, Third Cycle. B. H. Blackwell, 1918.
Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels, 1919, Fourth Cycle. B. H. Blackwell, 1919.
