Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887 - 1964 (poet, critic and eccentric)
Person
Dates and places
1887-1964
Sphere of activity
Poet, critic and eccentric
Relationships
Oldest child of Sir George and Lady Ida Sitwell, sister of Osbert and Sacheverell.
Other information
Verse publications include 'The Mother' (1915) and an annual anthology called 'Wheels' (1916-21). Prose publications include 'Poetry and Criticism' (1925), 'The English Eccentrics' (1933) and 'Fanfare for Elizabeth' (1946).
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-Series
Correspondence between E.M. Forster and Edith Sitwell, 1928 - 1954
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/18/514
Scope and Contents
This sub-series consists of two files of correspondence. One includes earlier letters from Edith Sitwell to E.M. Forster. The other includes later correspondence between the two.
Dates:
1928 - 1954
File
Letter from Edith Sitwell to T.S. Eliot, 1949-06-30
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB/L/9q
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter to T.S. Eliot.
Dates:
1949-06-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
File
Letters from Dame Edith Sitwell to E. M. W. Tillyard, 1947 - 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMWT/Sitwell
Scope and Contents
4 autograph letters signed.
Dates:
1947 - 1950
File
Letters from Dame Edith Sitwell to J.M. Keynes, 1943-08-01 - 1943-08-17
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/45/302
Scope and Contents
3 autograph letters, signed, one is bound into a volume which also contains a mnuscript copy of 'Lullaby' and some discarded workings for the poem.
Dates:
1943-08-01 - 1943-08-17
File
Letters from Edith Sitwell, 1924 - 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/WJHS/1/92
Scope and Contents
6 autograph letters, signed.
Dates:
1924 - 1942
File
Letters from Edith Sitwell to Edward Dent, 1948-06-29 - 1948-08-29
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EJD/4/374
Scope and Contents
2 autograph letters signed.
Dates:
1948-06-29 - 1948-08-29
File
Letters from Edith Sitwell to GHWR, 1924 - 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/3/388
Scope and Contents
2 autograph letters signed.
Dates:
1924 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
File
Letters from Edith Sitwell to JDH, 1932 - 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JDH/26/89
Scope and Contents
27 autograph letters signed. The file also contains a typescript of ntoes on colour by Lorenz Oken, undated.
Dates:
1932 - 1958
Sub-Series
Letters to RNL and Father Philip Caraman, SJ from Edith Sitwell, 1946 - 1959
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/RNL/2/564
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series mostly contains letters addressed to Rosamond Lehmann. However, it includes a few letters sent to Alice Marie Lehmann, Beatrix Lehmann, John Lehmann, Wogan Philipps and Wellesley Tudor Pole. There is also a sequence of letters written by Rosamond Lehmann, which were either unsent drafts, returned to her by the recipient or their heirs, or given to the Archive Centre because they hold particular relevance to her life and writing (RNL/2/341). Letters from unidentified...
Dates:
1946 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Some items contain sensitive personal information and are closed to researchers under the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998). A request to view these items must be made in writing to the Archivist who will discuss with the researcher the possibilities for obtaining the written permission of the author. A statement to this effect is given with each closed file.
File
Listed letters, 1948-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB/L/7/b
Scope and Contents
This file includes letters from the following (listed in alphabetical order by last name):1. Clive Bell2. Kenneth Clark3. Cyril Connolly4. Douglas Cooper5. C. Day Lewis6. Una Ellis-Fermor7. Frederick Etchells8. E. M. Forster9. Michael Hamburger10. L. C. Knights11. E. V. Knox12. Earl of Lytton13. Sir Eric Maclagan14. John Masefield15. Henry Moore16. Eric Partridge17. William Plomer18. Anthony Powell19. J. B....
Dates:
1948-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
File
Personal photographs, 1920 - 1952
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/STE/4/3
Scope and Contents
The photographs comprise:- photograph of JEHS, seated outdoors holding a glass of wine, [1920s];- 'Cara', seated in a bathing suit on a stony beach, 1926;- aeroplanes taken by JEHS on journey from Rotterdam to Croydon, 1930;- a furnished room in the Victorian Exhibition at St Bartholomew's Hospital showing, among the exhibits, the chair and painting loaned by JEHS, [c. 1934];- Elizabeth and Philip Steegman, Edith and Osbert Sitwell, David Horner and an unidentified woman...
Dates:
1920 - 1952
File
University Publisher: Correspondence with Sitwell, E., 1942 - 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/3/4295
Scope and Contents
3 carbon typed letters.
Dates:
1942 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.