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 ...

Fifty years ago, Edith Sitwell was one of the U.K.’s leading poets. Today no one reads her. Small wonder that Richard Greene, whose new biography is the first in 30 years, has titled its prologue ...

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 ...

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 ...

TAKEN CARE OF by Edith Sitwell. 239 pages. Arheneum. $5.95. “Oh, why don’t they bury us?” sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last ...