Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in ...

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...

DAME EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) proclaimed that she was not eccentric, just “more alive than most people…an unpopular electric eel in a pool…of catfish”. If not eccentric, she was certainly gloriously ...

TAKEN CARE OF by Edith Sitwell. 239 pages. Arheneum. $5.95. “Oh, why don’t they bury us?” sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last ...

Dame Edith Sitwell's address book includes notes on people such as "psychopath who insulted me after television" and "well-meaning American pest" A rare Islamic atlas and the address book of ...

EDITH SITWELL’S career demonstrates all the hazards of celebrity. Writing of her and her two brothers in 1932, literary critic FR Leavis sniffed “the Sitwells belong to the history of publicity rather ...

As Dame Edith Sitwell's eccentric wardrobe goes up for auction, her great nephew reflects fondly on a life less ordinary William Sitwell is the restaurant critic and a columnist for The Telegraph, as ...

‘Gothic enough to hang bells in’ was, apparently, the response of one American visitor to a portrait of Edith Sitwell in the Tate. Elizabeth Bowen, herself an imposing physical presence, described ...

Fifty years ago, Edith Sitwell was one of the U.K.’s leading poets. Today no one reads her. Small wonder that Richard Greene, whose new biography is the first in 30 years, has titled its prologue ...

LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in November as part of a sale of personal effects, furnishings and interior ...