Osbert Sitwell

Assisted by Bryher , Osbert Sitwell organized a Reading of Famous Poets, which was held at the Aeolian Hall in London and benefited de Gaulle 's Free French forces.

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 . While in London, Bryher increased the...

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...

NC 's poem Wheels gave the title to the series edited by the Sitwells .Osbert Sitwell

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.Through the...

Her aunt Eliza Aria introduced the very young PF to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike and writers Michael Arlen and Osbert Sitwell . Later came John Van Druten

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...

NH and Osbert Sitwell together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him.

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...

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.

The idea for the book was NH 's; Osbert Sitwell supplied the text. Library catalogues today list the book as his, but it was advertised as described by Osbert Sitwell , drawn by Nina Hamnett...

This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...

SH loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. During her childhood she enjoyed visiting the Scarborough home of the SitwellOsbert SitwellSacheverell Sitwell s; the family of poets and artists left...

Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, and found intimidatingly intellectual, included T. S. Eliot , Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , various members...

Between 1921 and 1929 AH published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry. He also published poems in Wheels, the experimental poetry series edited by Edith Sitwell