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Biography of Edith Sitwell, Dame
Name: Edith Sitwell, Dame
Birth Date: September 7, 1887
Death Date: December 9, 1964
Place of Birth: Scarborough, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet
Edith Sitwell, Dame
The English poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was one of England's dominating literary figures for half a century and its most eminent woman poet.Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough on Sept. 7, 1887, into a family of landed gentry. Her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, both younger, also became celebrated writers. She was privately educated on the family estate at Renishaw until she entered the literary circles of London shortly before the beginning of World War I. Her first volume, The Mother and Other Poems, was published in 1915, and the following year she began to edit an annual anthology, Wheels, which set out to repudiate the comfortable, familiar, English sentimentalities of the Georgian poets. Its bizarre, satirical, self-conscious verse anticipated that judgment of the contemporary scene that was to be perfectly articulated shortly thereafter by T.S. Eliot in The Wasteland. Edith Sitwell was thus in the vanguard of the movement …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…thoughts without reference to the family as a whole. Rodolphe L. Megroz, The Three Sitwells: A Biographical and Critical Study (1927), is an early example of such a family study. John Lehmann, a friend, publisher, and admirer, wrote A Nest of Tigers: The Sitwells in Their Times (1968). The autobiographical works of Osbert Sitwell, comprising Left Hand, Right Hand! (1944), The Scarlet Tree (1946), Great Morning (1948), Laughter in the Next Room (1948), and Noble Essences: A Book of Characters (1950), are invaluable. John Lehmann, Edith Sitwell (1952), is a sympathetic study of her life. Cecil M. Bowra, Edith Sitwell (1947), represents the judgment of another close friend. Geoffrey Singleton, Edith Sitwell: The Hymn to Life (1960), is recommended.Elborn, Geoffrey, Edith Sitwell, a biography, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.Glendinning, Victoria, Edith Sitwell, a unicorn among lions, New York: Knopf, 1981.Pearson, John, The Sitwells: a family's biography, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, 1978. Salter, Elizabeth, Edith Sitwell, London: Oresko Books, 1979.
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