Osbert Sitwell

Standard Name: Sitwell, Osbert

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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.
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Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
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While in London, Bryher increased the...
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
and found intimidatingly intellectual, included T. S. Eliot , Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , various members...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
During her childhood she enjoyed visiting the Scarborough home of the SitwellOsbert SitwellSacheverell Sitwell s; the family of poets and artists left...
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.
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