Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell (September 7 1887 – December 9 1964) was a British poet and critic.

Background

Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, of aristocratic but eccentric parentage of Lord George Sitwell and ex-socialite Lady Ida Sitwell of Renishaw Hall. She would later claim that she was descended from the Plantagenets. She had two younger brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell who were well-known literary figures in their own right and long-term collaborators. Her relationship with her parents was stormy at best, especially when her father locked her into an iron frame to "correct" her supposed spine deformation. In her later autobiography she said that her parents had always been strangers to her.

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Scarborough - Yorkshire - Renishaw Hall - Plantagenets - Osbert - Sacheverell Sitwell - Autobiography

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Sitwell left for London at the age of twenty-five with the governess Helen Rootham. In London she moved into a fourth-floor flat in Pembridge Mansions, Bayswater.

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Pembridge Mansions - Bayswater

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