Osbert Sitwell Collection

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Osbert Sitwell Collection

1887-1969

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00237

Seventy-one notebooks with handwritten drafts of a wide variety of works make up a large portion of the Osbert Sitwell Collection, along with galley files and typescripts of additional titles, and an extensive assortment of correspondence.

45 boxes (18.9 linear feet), 5 galley folders, 1 oversize folder

eng, Latn

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677248

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...