Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...
There are three writing Sitwells: Edith, Sacheverell and Osbert; and the best of them is Edith. She is a poet (she hates to be called a poetess) and a good one, possibly a great one. Three English ...
DAME EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) proclaimed that she was not eccentric, just “more alive than most people…an unpopular electric eel in a pool…of catfish”. If not eccentric, she was certainly gloriously ...