Sacheverell Sitwell

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...

By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West , Rose Macaulay ,...

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

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 .

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...