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Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p. 57 |
Education | Edith Sitwell | ES
's grandmother Sitwell engaged Helen Rootham
as a governess for Edith; she enlisted the help of eleven-year-old Osbert
in making her choice. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 31-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | Her brother Osbert
was found in summer 1950 to have Parkinson's disease. His health deteriorated steadily. As well as being grieved by his illness, Edith was angered by David Horner's behaviour in this emergency. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Violet Keppel (later VT
) began a short engagement to Osbert Sitwell
. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 118 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Sitwell | Osbert
and Sacheverell Sitwell
were both introduced to the world of the imagination by Edith, and considered their elder sister as a mentor. Later, the three of them became what Osbert termed a closed corporation... |
Fictionalization | Ada Leverson | Several of AL
's literary friends—Harold Acton
, Osbert Sitwell
—left more or less fictionalised portraits of her; but these turn much more on her character and public image than on her writing. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 27-9 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton
, Ronald Firbank
, the Sitwellbrothers
, and the young composer William Walton
. Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 256-7 Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 87 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
strengthened her bonds with Osbert
, Edith
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim
, Isak Dinesen
(Karen Blixen), François Mitterand
, and Cecil Beaton
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 124-5, 135 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith
, Osbert
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, Rebecca West
, and Nancy Cunard
. She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | The flat became a gathering place for friends including the Sitwells (Bryher grew especially close to Edith
and Osbert
), Elizabeth Bowen
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Schaffner, Perdita. “Keeper of the Flame”. H.D., Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King, National Poetry Foundation, 1986, pp. 27-33. 32 Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 18 |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, qtd. in Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row, 1974. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | She often stayed with Count
and Countess Lützow
in Bohemia, where in 1903 she met Sibell, Countess of Cromartie
, whom she described as one of my firmest friends ever since. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930. 71 |
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