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Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

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  • Release Date: 16/05/2013
  • Barcode: 9780571296460
  • Edition: Main
  • Genre: Biography
  • Label: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Subgenre: Literary Criticism
Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

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A Unicorn among Lions.

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, this is the definitive portrait of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman.

'The excellence of Mrs Glendinning's book is that it remains wise and balanced while never sacrificing critical edge.

Her looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she spent in penury, writing fiction, biography and verse. Only when Yeats hailed her as 'a major poet' did her work reach a wider audience, whereupon Edith Sitwell set off to conquer New York and Hollywood.

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, this is the definitive portrait of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman.

'The excellence of Mrs Glendinning's book is that it remains wise and balanced while never sacrificing critical edge. It's hard to imagine a life of Edith Sitwell that could surpass it.' John Carey, Sunday Times


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