Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in ...

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...

TAKEN CARE OF by Edith Sitwell. 239 pages. Arheneum. $5.95. “Oh, why don’t they bury us?” sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last ...

THE SONG OF THE COLD (113 pp.)—Edith Sitwell— Vanguard ($2.75). A CELEBRATION FOR EDITH SITWELL (144 pp.)—Edited by José Garcia Villa—New Directions ($1.50). England’s fabulous Sitwells (Osbert, Edith ...

WHEN one thinks of Dame Edith Sitwell, one remembers her Plantagenet beauty, her height, which must have given her punishing moments when she was a debutante, and her long hands, the slender fingers ...

“Here’s fame,” the poet John Berryman said in 1948, as he showed off to his friends his invitation to the Gotham Book Mart cocktail party. The party honored visiting literary royalty Dame Edith ...

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THERE is midsummer Opens all the windows And drowns the houses In scent of dust and rose. Vibrant transparency above The hills is visible. At night the stars shine through the silence Tangible, ...

LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in November as part of a sale of personal effects, furnishings and interior ...