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...
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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Nina Hamnett
This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England,
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate, 1955.
38
and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...
Travel
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She also stayed at Mells near Frome in Somerset and at Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire (with Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
). From at least 1944 her elder daughter was at her husband's family home, Parfetts...
Travel
Edith Sitwell
ES
, her brother Osbert
, and his lover David Horner
set sail for the United States on the Queen Mary for a six-month tour.