Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), Poet
Dame Edith Sitwell
Sitter associated with 52 portraits
The sister of the writers Sacheverall and Osbert Sitwell, her first volume of poems, The Mother, was published in 1915. In collaboration with Osbert, she wrote Twentieth Century Harlequinade (1916). As editor of Wheels, 1916-21, she encouraged Modernist writers. Façade, her poem set to William Walton's music, established the Sitwells as a cultural phenomenon. Her best-known work includes Gold Coast Customs (1929) and English Eccentrics (1933). Four wartime volumes, including Street Songs (1942) and The Shadow of Cain (1947), were inspired by the blitz and the atom bomb.
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 14 April 1943
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Dame Edith Sitwell; Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt
by Bill Brandt
bromide print on card mount, 1945
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt; Dame Edith Sitwell
by Ruth Sondak
bromide print, 8 November 1948
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Dame Edith Sitwell; Marilyn Monroe
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by George Silk
Modern bromide print, January 1953
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Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell (née Denison) (mother)
Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt (brother)
Sir (Sacheverell) Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt (nephew)
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt (brother)
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