Edith Sitwell

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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
ES 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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Edith Sitwell by Cecil Beaton, 1962. She wears her black ostrich-feather turban with taffeta standing up on top, a black long-sleeved blouse, and over it an elaborately folded white arrangement like wings. She rests her head between her hands, which are adorned with large, heavy rings.

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Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
After attending Sitwell 's Façade at least twice (the first, private performance and another in 1926), VSW declared that in fifty years those frauds the Sitwells
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
164
would be forgotten. However, she published in the...
Textual Production Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome produced stage versions during the 1930s, and...
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
WBY published The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. His idiosyncratic selection included Alice Meynell , Ezra Pound , Edith Sitwell , Rabindranath Tagore , Sylvia Townsend Warner , and his friend Dorothy Wellesley .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
280n27
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Theodora Benson
TB dedicated Façade—another novel about gilded youth and a marriage which may or may not turn out happily—to her father .
Her title had been more famously used by Edith Sitwell in her suite...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
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 E. B. C. Jones
Her contributors included Jane Barlow , Frank Betts , Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush) , M. St Clare Byrne , Elsa L. Duff , A. P. Herbert , Aldous Huxley , E. H. W. Meyerstein ,...
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
Of the fourteen poets invited to read four were women: Edith Sitwell , Kathleen Raine , Dorothy Wellesley , and Ridler. Sitwell and T. S. Eliot sat on either side of the Chair of the evening, Desmond MacCarthy .
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
141
Textual Production Bryher
Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
GS began her period of portraiture around 1908. Her portraits resembled biographical sketches but they were usually more impressionistic than factual.She thought that this genre allowed her to capture the immediacy of characters and to...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Gertrude Stein
Edith Sitwell had hosted a tea for GS when she came to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard and Virginia Woolf .
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press, 1995.
184
They had written on 11 June...
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...
Textual Production Wyndham Lewis
WL 's long satirical poem One-Way Song was published; a self-portrait included therein provoked derisive responses from Edith Sitwell (in I Live under a Black Sun, 1937) and her brother Osbert (in Those Were...

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