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British poet and critic (1887–1964)
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted
Edith_Sitwell
20th century sibling writers and literary personas
The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and the family seat of Renishaw Hall, were three siblings
The_Sitwells
English writer (1892–1969)
Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother
Osbert_Sitwell
English actor (born 2003)
Your Blue-Eyed Boy; Edith Sitwell in Scarborough; Country 2 Country". The Times. Retrieved 23 January 2026. Bella Ramsey was Miss Edith. Impact Winter. 19
Bella_Ramsey
British antiquarian writer and Conservative politician
the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895. Sitwell was born in London, the son of Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell, 3rd Baronet and his wife Louisa Lucy Hutchinson
George_Sitwell
Painting by Wyndham Lewis
Edith Sitwell is a portrait of the British poet and critic Edith Sitwell made by Wyndham Lewis. It was begun in 1923 and finished in 1935. It is in the
Edith_Sitwell_(Lewis)
British writer (born 1969)
of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He is the heir presumptive to the Sitwell baronetcy currently held
William_Sitwell
Series of poems by Edith Sitwell
Façade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Façade – An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment
Façade_(entertainment)
English writer
Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall, and the former Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older
Sacheverell_Sitwell
English landowner
of Beaufort). He was the nephew of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet. His maternal grandparents were Georgie (née
Reresby_Sitwell
British businessman (born 1967)
Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet. He is the great-nephew of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet, and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He inherited
George Reresby Sacheverell Sitwell
George_Reresby_Sacheverell_Sitwell
Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
the fifth and sixth baronets, were both noted poets and authors. Dame Edith Sitwell, his only daughter, was a poet and critic. The seventh Baronet was High
Sitwell_baronets
Surname list
Sitwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A member of the Sitwell literary family: Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell
Sitwell
English composer (1902–1983)
literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade
William_Walton
Name list
player Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet Edith Somerville (1858–1949), Irish novelist Edith Stein
Edith
English actress (1907–1991)
Lear, The Tempest and Shakespeare's sonnets) (Argo) Two recordings of Edith Sitwell and William Walton's Façade - with Paul Scofield conducted by Walton
Peggy_Ashcroft
Unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual
and mourned a lack of eccentricity as "the chief danger of the time". Edith Sitwell wrote that eccentricity is "often a kind of innocent pride", also saying
Eccentricity_(behavior)
Russian painter
He and Edith Sitwell had a long-standing close friendship and they corresponded frequently. Tchelitchew painted six major portraits of Sitwell. His first
Pavel_Tchelitchew
Topics referred to by the same term
(entertainment), poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton Façade (ballet), a ballet by Frederick Ashton based on the Sitwell/Walton work, above
Facade_(disambiguation)
1930 collection of photographs by Cecil Beaton
Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Lillie Langtry Lily Elsie Gaby Deslys Gina Palerme
The_Book_of_Beauty
Australian actress
for Best Actress for Pack of Lies and Knuckledusters: The Jewels of Edith Sitwell (the latter of which she both wrote and performed) and several AFI Awards
Kerry_Walker
1956 book by Colin Wilson
print-run of 5,000 copies for the book. He gave a copy of the manuscript to Edith Sitwell, who called the book "astonishing" and claimed that Wilson would be
The_Outsider_(Wilson_book)
English actress
"radiohaha -- Five Squeezy Pieces". Angelfire. Retrieved 29 April 2022. "Edith Sitwell in Scarborough". BBC. 17 March 2020. Archived from the original on 13
Julia_Davis
South African poet (1901–1957)
1957. Though Campbell was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and
Roy_Campbell_(poet)
British politician and landowner
Sir Sitwell Sitwell, 1st Baronet JP (né Hurt; September 1769 – 14 July 1811) was a British politician and landowner. Born as Sitwell Hurt in September
Sitwell_Sitwell
1975) Praise we great men for soloists, chorus and orchestra (words by Edith Sitwell; 1976. Completed by Colin Matthews, 1985) Welcome Ode, Op. 95, for young
List of compositions by Benjamin Britten
List_of_compositions_by_Benjamin_Britten
Australian biographer and crime novelist
was an Australian biographer and crime novelist. She was secretary to Edith Sitwell from 1957 until the latter's death in 1964. Salter was born in Angaston
Elizabeth_Salter
Dutch-British actress (born 1991)
Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly. The play is about the meeting between Dame Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe. The play was previously produced as an audiodrama
Genevieve_Gaunt
1920s group of aristocratic socialites
Ponsonby Loelia Ponsonby Anthony Powell Elizabeth Russell Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell Eleanor Smith David Tennant Stephen Tennant Henry Thynne
Bright_young_things
of the poem was printed as a limited edition of 265 copies. Sitwell's sister, Edith Sitwell, a literary critic known for her effusive praise of her brother's
Agamemnon's_Tomb
Collection of poems and instrumental arrangements
Façade – an entertainment comprising poems by Edith Sitwell read to instrumental accompaniments composed by William Walton – was first recorded, by its
Façade_discography
British photographer and designer (1904–1980)
magazines up to that point. Encounters with influential figures such as Edith Sitwell and Stephen Tennant helped shape his focus on elegance and the British
Cecil_Beaton
1920 book by Wilfred Owen
was edited by Owen's friend Siegfried Sassoon, with assistance from Edith Sitwell. Sassoon also wrote an introduction, including the words "The poems
Poems_(Wilfred_Owen)
1931 ballet by Frederick Ashton
interpretation of items from Façade – an Entertainment (1923) by Walton and Edith Sitwell. The ballet was first given by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge
Façade_(ballet)
1937 book by George Orwell
praised Orwell's depiction of the working class in Part I. The poet Edith Sitwell wrote: "The horror of the beginning ... is unsurpassable. He seems to
The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier
English composer (1915–1982)
words again by Edith Sitwell). The premiere of Gold Coast Customs took place at BBC Broadcasting House on 17 May 1949, with Edith Sitwell and Constant Lambert
Humphrey_Searle
Abridged English translation of Journey to the West, a 16th-century Chinese novel
most-read English-language versions of the novel. The British poet Edith Sitwell characterized Monkey as "a masterpiece of right sound", one that was
Monkey_(novel)
1969 single by Grateful Dead
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and Dame Edith Sitwell's "Polka". The song begins with two distinct guitar riffs. The first
China_Cat_Sunflower
English painter and critic (1866–1934)
20 May 2010. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1893) Edith Sitwell (1915) Virginia Woolf (1917) Edith Sitwell (1918) The Breakfast Table (c.1918) Self portrait
Roger_Fry
English journalist, politician and churchman (1905–1976)
growing awe". A poem by Driberg, in the style of Edith Sitwell, was published in Oxford Poetry 1926; when Sitwell came to Oxford to deliver a lecture, Driberg
Tom_Driberg
Award
writers. 17 of the nominees were newly nominated including Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, Adriaan Roland Holst, William Somerset Maugham, Eugenio Montale (awarded
1955 Nobel Prize in Literature
1955_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
September 2022. Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood. "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Edith Sitwell in Scarborough". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2022. Shakespeare, William
List of Glenda Jackson performances
List_of_Glenda_Jackson_performances
Filipino poet (1908–1997)
as somewhat narrow, he "soars high and plunges deep". British poet Edith Sitwell revealed in the preface of Villa's Selected Poems and New that she experienced
José_García_Villa
English actor and writer (1922–1975)
conducted by Efrem Kurtz (1959). With Fenella Fielding he recorded Edith Sitwell's Façade poems with Walton's music played by the Academy of St Martin
Michael_Flanders
story writer. Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc. Edith Södergran (1892–1923)
List of modernist women writers
List_of_modernist_women_writers
Award
Williams. There were only five women authors nominated: Karen Blixen, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Gertrud von le Fort and Marie Under. The authors Eleanor
1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
1958_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
Edith Sitwell: An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center". Archived from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 17 April 2013. "Edith
List of converts to Catholicism
List_of_converts_to_Catholicism
Nobel Prize nominees for Literature
org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive - Edith Sitwell". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination
List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature
List_of_nominees_for_the_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
English poet, critic and bookseller
Geoffrey Scott, Edward Shanks, Fredegond Shove, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender, J. C. Squire, James Stephens, Edward
Harold_Monro
Act of reciting or formal reading
Ashwell was often the performer. Facade, an entertainment, poems by Edith Sitwell, music by William Walton is a series of poems which are recited (through
Recitation
Artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition
John Giorno, Steve Dalachinsky, Yoko Ono, and Jaap Blonk. The poet Edith Sitwell coined the term abstract poetry to describe some of her own poems which
Sound_poetry
1954 vocal composition by Benjamin Britten
the composer on piano. The poem on which Canticle III is based is by Edith Sitwell and was first published in 1941. It was written after the raids on London
Canticle III: Still falls the rain
Canticle_III:_Still_falls_the_rain
Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years
benefits of some natural medicines, including herbal colon cleansing. Edith Sitwell mentions Parr in 1958's English Eccentrics: A Gallery of Weird And Wonderful
Old_Tom_Parr
2021 biographical drama film
Theresa Thornycroft Richard Goulding as George Sassoon Lia Williams as Edith Sitwell Suzanne Bertish as Lady Ottoline Morrell David Shields as Alexander
Benediction_(film)
Former Scottish publisher
Cardus, Cecil Beaton, Vita Sackville-West, David Low, Francis Meynell, Edith Sitwell, Graham Greene and John Betjeman. Collins ultimately became a diverse
William_Collins,_Sons
Middle English lyric
called it "one of the most haunting lyrics of all the Middle Ages", and Edith Sitwell thought it "a miracle of poetry". It is a notoriously enigmatic poem
Maiden_in_the_mor_lay
British actress and director (born 1964)
Minister Katherine Davies 2020 Archive House (voice) 2021 Benediction Edith Sitwell 2022 Living Mrs. Smith 2024 Scoop Fran Unsworth Decoy Vivian Short film
Lia_Williams
Khoikhoi woman (c. 1789–1815)
compares a woman wearing a crinoline to a "Venus" from "the Cape". Dame Edith Sitwell referred to Baartman allusively in "Hornpipe", a poem in the satirical
Sarah_Baartman
American poet (1908–2002)
gloves-off account of more or less professional young homosexuals". Edith Sitwell burned her copy and described it as "entirely without soul, like a dead
Charles_Henri_Ford
Form of singing
and also reached number 44 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In England, Edith Sitwell featured a "Jodelling Song" as part of her series of poems Façade, set
Yodeling
English poet
also was in Oxford Poetry 1924. His poetry was admired and promoted by Edith Sitwell in the late 1920s. In the late 1920s, he was a key figure among London's
Brian_Howard_(poet)
1920 poem by Wilfred Owen
two different editions by Siegfried Sassoon with the assistance of Edith Sitwell (in 1920) and Edmund Blunden (in 1931). Poems (1920) has "Bitten": plausible
Dulce_et_Decorum_est
Canadian poet
English literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius., Virago (2012), and most recently
Richard_Greene_(writer)
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor
orchestra. New Readings (Gerard Manley Hopkins) Still Falls the Rain (Dame Edith Sitwell) A Better Resurrection (Christina Rossetti) He hath abolished the old
J._A._C._Redford
ensemble words by Edith Sitwell Vocal 1921–1929 1977 Façade 2: A Further Entertainment reciter and chamber ensemble words by Edith Sitwell; revision 1977
List of compositions by William Walton
List_of_compositions_by_William_Walton
British painter and illustrator (1905–1944)
the fashionable; he painted many members of London society, including Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton and other members of the set to which he belonged that
Rex_Whistler
1994 British film
Michael Attwell as W.L. Janes Sharon Bower as Secretary Linda Spurrier as Edith Sitwell Roberta Taylor as Ottoline Morrell Christopher Baines as Verger Anna
Tom_&_Viv
1937 book by Edith Sitwell
Under a Black Sun is a novelized biography of Jonathan Swift by poet Edith Sitwell. Her debut novel, it is a modernist work, and was published in 1937
I_Live_Under_a_Black_Sun
English writer
Siegfried Sassoon: ‘such fun to tell things to. Laughs so utterly’ Edith Sitwell: ‘bitter against the world in general, and very comprehending towards
Edith_Olivier
English poet and soldier (1893–1918)
patronage, and it was a combination of Sassoon's influence, support from Edith Sitwell, and the preparation of a new and fuller edition of the poems in 1931
Wilfred_Owen
1861 anthology of English poetry
Pound – Andrew Young – Siegfried Sassoon – Rupert Brooke – Edwin Muir – Edith Sitwell – T. S. Eliot – John Crowe Ransom – W. J. Turner – Dorothy Wellesley
Palgrave's_Golden_Treasury
Private garden in the island of Ischia, Italy
of the City of London (cantata) Song cycles Anon in Love Songs after Edith Sitwell A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table Film scores William Walton: film music
La_Mortella
English crime writer (1893–1971)
having people tell her that "Francis Iles" is really Aldous Huxley or Edith Sitwell. The opening sentence of Malice Aforethought has been described as "immortal":
Anthony_Berkeley_Cox
English composer and pianist (1913–1976)
writing Praise We Great Men, for voices and orchestra based on a poem by Edith Sitwell. He returned to Aldeburgh in August, and wrote Welcome Ode for children's
Benjamin_Britten
Pamphlets published by Faber and Gwyer
Mother by Siegfried Sassoon, drawings by Stephen Tennant Popular Song by Edith Sitwell, designs by Edward Bawden A Song for Simeon by T. S. Eliot, drawings
Ariel_Poems_(Faber)
Enid Russell-Smith 1954: Lilian Bromley-Davenport; Helen Gillespie; Edith Sitwell 1955: Mabel Brookes; Elizabeth Cockayne; The Countess of Rosebery; Nancy
List of dames commander of the Order of the British Empire
List_of_dames_commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire
British literary magazine
Garnett, Aldous Huxley (under the pseudonym "Autolux"), Charlotte Mew, Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and G. D. H. Cole. In 1931, it was absorbed
The_Nation_and_Athenaeum
British furniture company and homeware store
May 1922. Pero, Allan; Phillips, Gyllian (2017). The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell. University Press of Florida. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8130-5284-7. Vaux Halliday
Heal's
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright (1914–2009)
Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as "an authentic American
James_Purdy
1930s symphony composed by William Walton
avant garde composer with his "Entertainment", Façade (to verses by Edith Sitwell). His other major works of the 1920s and early 1930s, including the
Symphony_No._1_(Walton)
Series of poetry anthologies, 1912–1922
His choice was Fredegond Shove, although other associates suggested Edith Sitwell, Charlotte Mew, and Rose Macaulay. He included four poems from Shove's
Georgian_Poetry
Chilean artist, drafter and boxer (1894–1951)
Guevara painted a portrait of Edith Sitwell entitled "Dame Edith Sitwell". According to Diana Holman-Hunt, Guevara and Sitwell shared a non-physical but "romantic
Álvaro_Guevara
British prizes for English language literature
Theroux, The Mosquito Coast Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Edith Sitwell) —N/a 1982 Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill Richard
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize
American poet (1915-1981)
Shapiro helped introduce Gardner to a larger audience, including the poet Edith Sitwell, who described Gardner as "a most talented young woman poet". Gardner
Isabella_Gardner_(poet)
Topics referred to by the same term
The Outcasts, a 1959 novel by Will Cook The Outcasts, a 1962 novel by Edith Sitwell The Outcasts, a 1965 novel by Daniel P. Mannix Outcasts, a 1981 novel
Outcast
Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745)
with him on almost every moral and political issue. Modernist poet Edith Sitwell wrote a fictional biography of Swift, titled I Live Under a Black Sun
Jonathan_Swift
British biographer and novelist (born 1937)
won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 for her biography of Edith Sitwell. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982
Victoria_Glendinning
Poets writing in the Modernist literary tradition
Ezra Pound E. A. Robinson Edna St. Vincent Millay Delmore Schwartz Edith Sitwell Kenneth Slessor Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Allen Tate Robert Penn
List_of_modernist_poets
1942 orchestral composition by William Walton
of the City of London (cantata) Song cycles Anon in Love Songs after Edith Sitwell A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table Film scores William Walton: film music
Spitfire_Prelude_and_Fugue
Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) (1884–1947) Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961) Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
Norton_Anthology_of_Literature_by_Women
Album by Thompson Twins
religious objects and Currie's collection of first editions by British poet Edith Sitwell, and forgot about music altogether. When Currie felt like returning
Close to the Bone (Thompson Twins album)
Close_to_the_Bone_(Thompson_Twins_album)
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
acclaimed, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir. When "Light breaks where no sun shines" appeared in
Dylan_Thomas
English novelist and writer (1894–1983)
to give financial support to struggling writers, including Joyce and Edith Sitwell. She also helped with finance for Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare
Bryher_(novelist)
American-British novelist and poet (1886–1968)
modernist writings of her contemporaries Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein or Edith Sitwell. Like many writers of the time, Borden reached for new techniques and
Mary_Borden
1896 poetry collection by A. E. Housman
football consoles a broken heart (XVII). But on this dubious sentiment Edith Sitwell commented acidly, "If he means to say that cricket, and cricket alone
A_Shropshire_Lad
Irish composer (1907–1994)
mixed chorus (1979) Still Falls the Rain for mixed double choir, text Edith Sitwell (1985) On Stephenses Day for female chorus (1989) Impetuous Heart, Be
Elizabeth_Maconchy
1981 anthology of WWI poems edited by Catherine W. Reilly
bringing together works by writers with established reputations, such as Edith Sitwell, May Wedderburn Cannan, Margaret Postgate Cole, Sara Teasdale, and Katharine
Scars_Upon_My_Heart
American writer (1908–2002)
and Wells and Parra received the Christopher Award the next year. Edith Sitwell suggested to John Lehmann that he publish the book in England and recommended
Edwina_Parra
English artist (1886–1956)
Graves, Herbert Furst, Laura Knight, Frank Brangwyn, Glyn Philpot, Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, J. F. C. Fuller and Havelock Ellis. However, Spare
Austin_Osman_Spare
English publisher (1907–1987)
discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell (1952), Virginia Woolf and her World (1975), Thrown to the Woolfs (1978)
John_Lehmann
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