biography
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Sitwell, Dame Edith (Louisa)
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| (1887–1964)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, N England, UK, the sister of Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. She first attracted notice through editing an annual anthology of new poetry, Wheels (1916–21), which encouraged Modernist writers, notably Pound and T S Eliot, as well as Wilfred Owen. Her recital of some of her own poems under the title Façade (1922), to music by William Walton, was given a stormy public reception in London on account of its lack of any clear meaning. She became a Catholic in 1955, after which her works reflect a deeper religious symbolism, as in The Outcasts (1962). She was created a dame in 1954. Her autobiography, Taken Care Of, was published posthumously in 1965. |
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