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...literary family, leaked the first bit of spleen: that D. H. Lawrence would be among her major targets for setting his Lady Chatterley's Lover at the Sitwell estate in Derbyshire and modeling the novel's war-maimed, cuckolded baronet after the elder of her brothers, Sir Osbert. "My brother," noted the Plantagenet-descended poetess, "is a baronet, and he fought like a tiger for his country in the First World War. I don't know why Lawrence should have done this to Osbert, who never harmed...
...sold scarcely 10,000 copies in the U.S. But in recent years, he has posthumously acquired a band of devoted disciples. Among his current admirers are Edmund Wilson ("His books are extremely intellectual and composed with the closest attention: dense textures of in direction that always disguise point"), Sir Osbert Sitwell, who compares his style to "silver cobwebs," and Poet John Betjeman, to whom Firbank is "a jewelled and clockwork nightingale...
...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...
England's Sacheverell Sitwell is as sensitive to the beauties of the past as any other man alive. Like his famous brother and sister, Osbert and Edith, he is at least Edwardian in his attitudes, positively baroque in his tastes. His famous travel books and his less famous poetry exude a distaste for contemporary living, and few writers can bolster their eccentricities with a wider knowledge of music, books and architecture. Now, with 61 years and as many books behind him", he moves into an area where he is about as much at home as a caveman with...
...hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...