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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 191 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 100 |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | Other friends who not of this group but who were important to CMC
included several distinguished writers: Eudora Welty
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Tennessee Williams
, Elizabeth Ames
(director of the writers' community at... |
Travel | Carson McCullers | The couple travelled to France together in 1946, and spent the winter and most of 1947 in Paris, with a side trip to Rome. CMC
loved visiting new places both within and beyond... |
Friends, Associates | Carson McCullers | CMC
made a strong and enduring friendship in her forties with Mary Mercer
, a therapist who treated her for depression. Other friends made in her late years were Edward Albee
and John Huston
... |
Literary responses | Carson McCullers | In England, Edith Sitwell
called CMCa transcendental writer, and V. S. Pritchettthe most remarkable novelist to come out of America for a generation. Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, pp. 807-27. 815 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair
thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 191 Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 192 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | |
Friends, Associates | Susan Miles | During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot
, John Middleton Murry
, Edith Sitwell
, Wilfrid Meynell |
Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five... |
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 |
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... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | Belloc
's preface quotes a passage from RP
and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling
and by Edith Sitwell
to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
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... |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
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