Edith Sitwell

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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.

Milestones

7 September 1887

ES was born at Wood End in Scarborough, Yorkshire, an estate belonging to her paternal grandmother.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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March 1913

The young ES had a poem, Drowned Suns, printed in the Daily Mirror: this success helped to precipitate her decision to leave home and move to London the following month.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

13 December 1916

ES and her brothersSacheverell Sitwell edited and published a volume entitled Wheels, the first in a poetry anthology series which she made an annual event until 1921.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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4 December 1917

With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited the Second Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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20 January 1919

With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES issued the Third Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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2 November 1919

With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited the Fourth Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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November 1920

With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited a Fifth Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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November 1921

ES and her brothersSacheverell Sitwell issued a Sixth and final Cycle of their poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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24 January 1922

Façade, ES 's suite of poems written to music by the nineteen-year-old William Walton , had its first (private) performance at 2 Carlyle Square, Chelsea.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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12 June 1923

The first public performance of Façade by ES and William Walton was given at the Aeolian Hall , London.
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson.
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Cevasco, George A. The Sitwells: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. Twayne.
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25 July 1957

ES published a new Collected Poems, on which she had been doing steady work.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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9 December 1964

ES died at St Thomas's Hospital in London, of a cerebral haemorrhage.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Biography

Birth

7 September 1887

ES was born at Wood End in Scarborough, Yorkshire, an estate belonging to her paternal grandmother.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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