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There are three writing Sitwells: Edith, Sacheverell and Osbert; and the best of them is Edith. She is a poet (she hates to be called a poetess) and a good one, possibly a great one. Three English universities have dubbed her Doctor, her sovereign has made her a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, her poetry readings in the U.S. are well attended, and Hollywood has hired her to write the film script for her own book on Queen Elizabeth I. Now published for the first time in the U.S. are her Collected Poems (Vanguard...
...lions of British letters, grand-mannered poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 67, and her ailing author brother Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell, 62, ensconced in a Manhattan hotel for the Christmas holidays, reminisced about their past troubles with readers. Sir Osbert, who once listed his recreations as "listening to the sound of his own voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would...
...Conversation with Sir Osbert Sitwell...
Hollywood's home-grown characters got notice that they could expect some first-rate competition from abroad. Dame Edith Sitwell, 65, poet-historian-lecturer sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, held an audience for reporters in London and announced that she was off to California to write the screen play of her book Fanfare For Elizabeth (about Anne Boleyn and young Elizabeth). Said she: "My first scene will be most appallingly morbid. It almost frightens me. The story opens in London. Murder hovers around, and there will be an absolutely superb scene in the hospital for leprous virgins...
...voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair and Riviera high life, its place on the library shelf is beside Noel Coward and Sir Osbert Sitwell rather than beside Oswald Spengler and St. Augustine...