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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... |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Osbert Sitwell
wrote his approval. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 86 |
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., 1932. 98-9, 104-5 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR
continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and... |
politics | Bryher | 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. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS. 235 |
Publishing | Nina Hamnett | NH
and Osbert Sitwell
together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 927 |
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, 1983, 2 vols. 314 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. |
Reception | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline also appeared as fictional characters in works by Gilbert Cannan
, John Cramb
, Graham Greene
, Constance Malleson
, and Osbert Sitwell
. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 431-2 |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | The National Portrait Gallery
in London held an exhibition of works on ES
and her twobrothers
, which more than 30,000 people attended. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Residence | Susan Hill | SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
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, 1963. 86 |
Textual Production | Ada Leverson | AL
sometimes wrote to Osbert Sitwell
more than once a day. He called her near-illegible letters the hieroglyphs of the Sphinx. qtd. in Speedie, Julie. Arthur Machen and The Sphinx. Tartarus, 1992. |
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