Edith Sitwell letters

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Edith Sitwell letters

1921-1956

The collection consists of 18 items, including: a friendly letter and postcard to Mrs. Hugh Spender, 1921-1922; letter to Mr. Ainley, 15 Oct. 1930, about her activities, with praise for Ainley's son; a series of eight letters and one telegram to I.L. Salomon, 1947-1948, thanking him for a kind review of Green Song, announcing a planned lecture tour of America with her brother Osbert, and the difficulties in arranging a reading before a Vermont poetry society he represents.

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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 ...