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Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions

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Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions - Glendinning, Victoria
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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 ...

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Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions 2013, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571296460

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Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions 1981, Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN-13: 9780394504391

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