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EDITH SITWELL by Victoria Glendinning; Knopf; 393 pages...
...Biographer Victoria Glendinning, Edith was her own most inspired poem, and she once described herself in a cascade of fanciful imagery: "Tides ran in her blood, her nature was tempestuous...
...despite her reluctance to discuss personal matters, when she does give interviews the conversations often turns to "the children"--Hilary. Victoria. and Thomas--and the difficulty of being both a scholar and a mother. "I'm always hoping I'll learn to shift gears as my mother did." she said last year. "She could live every aspect of her life with great intensity--being with her children, writing--whatever she was doing would completely absorb...
...envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...
...office in 1877, Ulysses and Julia embarked on a two-year world tour. Grant dined with Queen Victoria, discussed war with Bismarck, and noted, with eerie precognition, the sorry history of colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The triumphal trip was not enough to catapult him back into office for the third term he sought in 1880. Still, his peculiar luck held. James Garfield, who won, was assassinated just months after Inauguration...