Edith Sitwell Correspondence

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Edith Sitwell Correspondence

1942- 1944

Letter, including envelope, addressed to Corporal Dan Roscher, February 2, 1944, declining an invitation to tea and responding to praise of her poetry. Also, letter addressed to Roscher from Marshall Field and Company, March 19, 1942, regarding a back issue of Wheels.

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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 ...