Schaffner, Perdita. “Keeper of the Flame”. H.D., Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King, National Poetry Foundation, 1986, pp. 27-33.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Bryher | The flat became a gathering place for friends including the Sitwells (Bryher grew especially close to Edith
and Osbert
), Elizabeth Bowen
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Schaffner, Perdita. “Keeper of the Flame”. H.D., Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King, National Poetry Foundation, 1986, pp. 27-33. 32 Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 18 |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, qtd. in Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row, 1974. 105 |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Osbert Sitwell
wrote his approval. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 86 |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR
continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and... |
Occupation | Nina Hamnett | Several of old friends (including Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
) sat for Hamnett for their portraits. Edith Sitwell's portrait especially attracted a good deal of comment. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. 98-9, 104-5 |
politics | Bryher | Assisted by Bryher
, Osbert Sitwell
organized a Reading of Famous Poets, which was held at the Aeolian Hall in London and benefited de Gaulle
's Free French
forces. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS. 235 |
Publishing | Nina Hamnett | NH
and Osbert Sitwell
together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 927 |
Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | WL
privately published The Apes of God, a satire attacking several writers of the 1920s, including Gertrude Stein
, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Osbert SitwellSitwell
s. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols. 314 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | The National Portrait Gallery
in London held an exhibition of works on ES
and her twobrothers
, which more than 30,000 people attended. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Reception | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline also appeared as fictional characters in works by Gilbert Cannan
, John Cramb
, Graham Greene
, Constance Malleson
, and Osbert Sitwell
. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 431-2 |
Residence | Susan Hill | SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | Her daughter says that her story The Blow, published in a literary magazine in the 1920s (after she had met theSitwells
), was different from anything she had written before. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 86 |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell
, ES
edited a Fifth Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. 86-7 |
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