Letter to the Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature

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Letter to the Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature

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Sitwell is indignant that the "Saturday Review" has published a review of Lloyd Frankenberg's "Pleasure dome; on reading modern poetry" in which Sitwell is mentioned as one of the poets Frankenberg discussed. She had requested both the author and the publisher not to include the "highly offensive" essay on her in the book and the publishers had agreed. She asks the "Saturday Review" to publish her letter objecting to the review.

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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 ...