Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
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was an important member of the modernist movement in England. She was primarily a poet and secondarily a literary critic, though her personal polemics, biographies, anthologies, letters, and autobiography all reflect her unique personality and power as a literary stylist.
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Literary responses | Nina Hamnett | Crowley's counsel called the stories indecent, vulgar, and ignorant, and demanded that all copies already sold should be recalled and destroyed. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 4 |
Literary responses | Penelope Mortimer | Edith Sitwell
and Beverley Nichols
testified to being enthralled Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 71 Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho
, Christina Rossetti
, Emily Dickinson
—not Elizabeth Barrett Browning
—and to the more recent Edith Sitwell
and Marianne Moore
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan. 218 and n |
Leisure and Society | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
made her formal entry into society as a debutante, a change of status . . . important then for the young females of our sub-tribe. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 34 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Peck | Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland
and Edith Sitwell
as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer
onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | Among our contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich
has offered this reading of ED
's life and works: Emily Dickinson—viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as partially cracked, by the twentieth century as fey or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | Several shorter stories are gems. Two of them explore respectively the experiences of birth and of death, from the viewpoint of those on the fringes of the central event. Many stories are hard on women... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | CR
was mourned in a sonnet by Michael Field
shortly after her death. Her influence extended to many other poets of her own time or close to it, including Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Rosamund Marriott Watson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bowen | The authors whom EB
wrote of for the British Council in English Novelists are (as the commission required) canonical and mostly male. She was deeply influenced by Virginia Woolf
, and wrote after Woolf's death... |
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 | Muriel Spark | MS
became extremely close to her landlady, Tiny Lazzari
, who despite her name was Irish, and who not only lodged her but delighted in feeding her and acting as a gatekeeper to keep out... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Quin | In Connecticut she attended a party to celebrate the recent publication of Marguerite Young
's novel Miss MacIntosh, my darling. Commenting on this nearly two-thousand-page tome, AQ
noted if Edith Sitwell
had written a... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
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