Lady Ida Sitwell

ES 's mother , through her involvement with a forger, confidence trickster, and blackmailer, Julian Osgood Field , was convicted of fraud and sent to Holloway Prison for three months.

ES 's mother, Lady Ida (Denison) Sitwell , was only seventeen when she married in 1886, and eighteen when Edith was born. After a few days of marriage she had run home to her parents...

ES 's mother, Lady Ida , died in July 1937, the year before Helen Rootham. Edith travelled from Paris to England to be with her before she died, but did not go to her funeral...