Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887 - 1964 (poet, critic and eccentric)
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:
Correspondence between E.M. Forster and Edith Sitwell, 1928 - 1954
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.
Letter from Edith Sitwell to T.S. Eliot, 1949-06-30
1 autograph letter to T.S. Eliot.
Letters from Dame Edith Sitwell to E. M. W. Tillyard, 1947 - 1950
4 autograph letters signed.
Letters from Dame Edith Sitwell to J.M. Keynes, 1943-08-01 - 1943-08-17
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.
Letters from Edith Sitwell, 1924 - 1942
6 autograph letters, signed.
Letters from Edith Sitwell to Edward Dent, 1948-06-29 - 1948-08-29
2 autograph letters signed.
Letters from Edith Sitwell to GHWR, 1924 - 1925
2 autograph letters signed.
Letters from Edith Sitwell to JDH, 1932 - 1958
27 autograph letters signed. The file also contains a typescript of ntoes on colour by Lorenz Oken, undated.
Letters to RNL and Father Philip Caraman, SJ from Edith Sitwell, 1946 - 1959
Listed letters, 1948-01
Personal photographs, 1920 - 1952
University Publisher: Correspondence with Sitwell, E., 1942 - 1947
3 carbon typed letters.