Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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.
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Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | Pernel Strachey
was then Principal of Newnham. EJ
, as secretary of the college literary society, was privileged to invite Edith Sitwell
to address the society, and to meet and entertain the great poet. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | Having met Edith Sitwell
when she was an undergraduate (an acquaintance which she later kept up) EJ
was asked by Pernel Strachey
when she left Newnham whether she would like an invitation to Leonard
and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
writes here of her own career and of her memories of encounters in the literary London of the twentieth century, with vivid and idiosyncratic pen-portraits of literary lions. She describes Edith Sitwell
with enormous... |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Friends made in New York included PHJ
's publisher Charles Scribner
, as well as Diana
and Lionel Trillingwhom I loved, but always found a little intimidating. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 45 |
Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Unusually for her, PHJ
felt convinced on completing this novel that she had written something really good. She was surprised when time went by with no response from her publishers. On enquiry, she found that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | Her contributors included Jane Barlow
, Frank Betts
, Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush)
, M. St Clare Byrne
, Elsa L. Duff
, A. P. Herbert
, Aldous Huxley
, E. H. W. Meyerstein
,... |
Textual Production | Judith Kazantzis | This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain
, Edith Sitwell
, Nancy Cunard
, Cicely Hamilton
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Features | Rosamond Lehmann | They published some distinguished names—including Edith Sitwell
, Rose Macaulay
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
—and some promising newcomers, including Margaret Lane
, Margiad Evans
, and Jean Howard
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 240-1 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | During the 1920s she came to count the Sitwells among her close friends. She once sent a laurel crown to Edith Sitwell
, and she attended the first performance of Façade at the Aeolian Hall |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | Her daughter says that her story The Blow, published in a literary magazine in the 1920s (after she had met theSitwells
), was different from anything she had written before. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 86 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis | |
Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | WL
privately published The Apes of God, a satire attacking several writers of the 1920s, including Gertrude Stein
, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Osbert SitwellSitwell
s. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 314 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. |
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