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by Richard Greene


  Sitwell, Edith: prose works 1; Aspects of Modern Poetry 238–44, 245, 248, 313, 336; Bath 217–18, 219, 226; Children’s Tales (From the Russian Ballet) 150–1; ‘Coming to London’ 418; Daily Mail columns 198; ‘Dukes of Troy’ 31; The English Eccentrics 198, 226–8; English Women 287; Fanfare for Elizabeth 287, 331–2, 434; Fanfare for Elizabeth film script 376–81, 386–8, 435; I Live Under a Black Sun 258–62, 274, 319, 337, 367, 440; The Last Party 262; London Mercury review 248–9; Madame X sketches 177; The Map of Love 257; memoir 213–16; New Age columns 160–2, 164; A Notebook on William Shakespeare 345; Poetry and Criticism 178; Pope biography 39, 204–5; The Queens and the Hive 401, 412, 418, 423, 426–7, 434–5; sketches 429–30; ‘Some Notes on my Own Poetry’ 245–6; ‘Spring Torrents’ 286–7; Taken Care Of 36, 69, 160, 171, 193, 216, 287, 380, 429, 430, 443; ‘To the Dark Tower Came’ 262; Trio 258; Victoria of England 238, 244, 245, 246, 249–50, 269; vowel-technique essays 72

  Sitwell, Florence 14, 15–16, 46, 52, 69, 215, 224

  Sitwell, Francis 278, 433–4, 436, 437, 438, 442, 444

  Sitwell, Francis Hurt 13, 44–5

  Sitwell, George 13

  Sitwell, Sir George (1797–1853) 14

  Sitwell, Sir George (1860–1943): marriage 7; relationship with ES 13, 18–19, 39, 47, 63, 87; family background 13–16; education 16; upbringing 16; and spiritualism 16–17; The Barons of Pulford in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 17; On the Making of Gardens 26; political career 17–18; affair accusation 18; appearance 18; takes over Wood End 23; Renishaw Hall landscaping project 25–6; and Henry Moat 29; and Eliza Davis 30–1; and ES’s curvature of the spine 36; and Sargent family portrait 44–5; cheapness 45, 50, 52; depression 45–6; continental travels 46; and Es’s visits to Berlin 53–5; and ES’s coming out 58, 59; ES’s twenty-first birthday party 62–3; purchase of Castle of Acciaiuoli 64–5; and Lady Ida’s gambling debts 79; visit to Sicily, 1910: 80; Lady Hamner inheritance 80–1; mother’s death 81; visit to Florence 81–2; and the borrowing scandal 84–5, 90–1; and the Blanche Sitwell letters 88; and Lady Sitwell’s trial 92–3; petition to Home Secretary 97; and ES’s war work 102; and ES’s poetry 109; acquires Weston Hall 173; and grandson 187; Christmas, 1927: 195; will 229; wife’s funeral 258; and Helen Rootham’s final illness 263–4; and the Second World War 277; Waugh character sketch 291–2; moves to Switzerland 292–3; death 298; estate 299–302; Stiftung 300–2

  Sitwell, Georgia (née Doble) 179, 187, 235, 251, 258, 278, 290–1, 298, 391, 428–9, 437, 444

  Sitwell, Lady Ida (née Denison): marriage 7; rages 7, 11; family background 8–9; lack of education 9; upbringing 9; and social position 10; relationship with ES 10–11, 13, 39, 47, 202; and blood sports 13; interest in the macabre 24; tuberculosis 46–7, 84; surgery 57; and ES’s coming out 57–8, 59; gambling 63, 79; spending 63; lifestyle 63–4; alcoholism 79, 89; allowance 79; borrowing scandal 82–6, 90–1; default judgment against 83; trial 91–7; conviction 96–7; release from prison 97; and ES’s debut publication 98; memorial service 104; on Wyndham Lewis 159; selfishness 180; on Lawrence 186; Christmas, 1927: 195; health 202; decline 228–9; appearance 229; death 258; grave 444

  Sitwell, Lady Louisa Lucy 14, 22–3, 40, 46, 58, 66, 81, 87

  Sitwell, Osbert 7, 26; childhood 12, 30; on Florence Sitwell 15; on father 18; Left Hand, Right Hand! 18, 28, 69, 226, 250, 291–2; first words 22; on Renishaw Hall 24; attitude to working classes 28; and Henry Moat 29; Before the Bombardment 30; education 31; on Helen Rootham 42; and Sargent family portrait 45; on ES’s visit to Swinburne’s grave 66; on Sickert 69; visit to Sicily, 1910: 80; Lady Hamner inheritance 80–1; spending 82; army career 83–4, 89–90, 96–7, 106–7; and the borrowing scandal 84, 90–1; and mother’s trial 92, 94–5, 96; debut publication 99; photographer’s shop incident 102; exorcism of Renishaw Hall elemental 106; at the Battle of Loos 106–7; heart ailment 107; promotion to captain 107; and the death of Edward Wyndham Tennant 109; poetry 109; Twentieth Century Harlequinade 109–10; Wheels anthology poems 114, 115; ‘The Lament of the Mole-Catcher’ 115; introduction to Sassoon 121; and Gosse 123–4; and T. S. Eliot 125; and Owen 128; and Owen’s poems 129; ‘Alive – Alive O’ 132; and Nichols 132; Armistice celebrations 133; general election, 1918: 134; co-editor Arts and Letters 136; Wheels anthology fifth cycle poems 145–6; and Walton 152; and Façade 155–6, 157; and Coward 169; in Madrid 177; and SS’s marriage 179; and the General Strike 182; friendship with Sassoon 184; and Lawrence 186–7; sexuality 186–7, 192, 394–5, 416; on ‘Gold Coast Customs’ 201; reconciliation with Eliot 216–17; money problems 229; mother’s funeral 258; Northcliffe Lecture 258; Second World war life 271; Reynolds News case 281–2; Bryher’s gifts 290–1; Laughter in the Next Room 291–2, 342; heart disease 295; lifestyle 300; and father’s estate 300–2; and the dropping of the atomic bomb 318; American tour planned 338–9; Sunday Times book prize 342; arrival in New York 345; American tour 348, 350; second American tour suggested 356; coal nationalisation compensation 361; visit to Italy, 1950: 362; Parkinson’s disease diagnosed 363; second American tour 367–8; Waugh’s profile of 377; move to Palm Beach 378; American tour, 1955: 393; health 394; declining health 400, 427; American tour, 1957: 406; Parkinson’s disease 432; frailty 433; and ES’s death 444

  Sitwell, Sir Reresby 14

  Sitwell, Reresby 187, 302, 317

  Sitwell, Sacheverell 1; on mother 9; on Louisa Sitwell 14–15; on Renishaw Hall 24, 24–5; childhood 31; on Helen Rootham 42, 105; on father’s depression 46; Lady Hamner inheritance 80–1; visit to Florence 81–2; and the borrowing scandal 85, 90; 1914: 90; learns of mother’s conviction 96–7; on ES’s debut publication 98; on ES’s war work 102; ES visits at Eton 105; need for affection 105; ‘Li-Tai-Pé Drinks and Drowns’ 114; Wheels anthology poem 114; Army career 121–2; and Owen’s poems 129; Armistice celebrations 133; Wheels anthology fifth cycle poems 146; and Diaghilev 150; and ballet 152; and Walton 152; ‘The Octogenarian’ 152–4; in Madrid 177; marriage 179; Canons of Giant Art 219–20, 238, 244, 303; and Aspects of Modern Poetry 244; Dr Donne and Gargantua 244; ‘Agamemnon’s Tomb’ 256; ‘The Farnese Hercules’ 256; mother’s funeral 258; Northcliffe Lecture 258; and the Second World War 278; Reynolds News case 281; inheritance 301; Splendours and Miseries 302–3; depression 317–18; begins writing poetry again 318; second American tour suggested 356; and ES’s death 444; moves ES’s grave 444

  Sitwell, Sitwell 13–14, 24

  Sitwell, William 13

  ‘Sitwell Edith Sitwell’ (Stein) 177

  Sixth Sense, The (Anrep) 74

  Skeaping, John 137

  ‘Sketches for Sonnets’ (Spender) 297

  Slade School 72, 74, 116, 117, 118, 159

  ‘Sleep in a Nest of Flames’ (C. H. Ford) 330

  Sleeping Beauty, The (E. Sitwell) 170–2, 178, 194, 274, 320

  Sleeping Princess, The (Diaghilev production, 1921) 171

  Smart, Christopher 296, 419, 425

  Smart, Walter 218

  Smith, Lady Eleanor 180, 181

  Smyth, Ethel 70

  Smyth-Pigott, J. H. 197

  Snooty Baronet, The (Lewis) 225

  Soby, James 363

  Society for Twentieth Century Music 374

  Society of Women Musicians 141

  soldier poets 107–8, 109; see also Blunden, Edmund; Graves, Robert; Nichols, Robert; Owen, Wilfred; Sassoon, Siegfried; Sorley, Charles; Tennant, Edward Wyndham

  Solovyev, Vladimir 42

  Song of the Cold, The (E. Sitwell) 320–1, 348, 349

  Songlines, The (Chatwin) 297

  Sorley, Charles 106

  Soskin, William 261

  Sotheby’s 208, 432–3

  South Slavs 143–5

  Southern, Hugo 301, 302

  Southwark, Bishop of 59

  Soviet Union, invasion of 285

  Spanish Civil War 253–4, 357

  Spark, Muriel 18, 71–2, 408; The Girls of Slender Means 396

  Sparrow, John 240–1, 242, 251, 258; S
ense and Poetry 240

  Spectator 227–8, 339, 385–6

  Spencer, Stanley and Gilbert 116

  Spencer, Professor Theodore 339

  Spender, Matthew 312

  Spender, Natasha 290, 312, 357, 371, 402, 405

  Spender, Stephen 5, 174, 243, 245–6, 248, 249, 282, 290, 297, 306, 312, 323, 357, 358–9, 398, 404–5; ‘Sketches for Sonnets’ 297

  spiritualism 16–17

  Splendours and Miseries (S. Sitwell) 302–3

  Spring-Rice, Tom (later third Baron Monteagle) 59, 81

  Squire, J. C. 158–9, 167, 170; A Book of Women’s Verse 159

  Stanford, Sir Charles 42

  Stapleton, Michael 426–7

  Stein, Gertrude 113, 119, 314; Geography and Plays 30, 174, 180; ES on 174, 180; ES meets 176–7; and ES 177; ‘Sitwell Edith Sitwell’ 177; The Making of Americans 177, 180; lecture tour 183–4; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 183, 222; Composition as Explanation 184; introduces ES to Tchelitchew 189; and Tchelitchew 190–1; on Picasso 194; Shakespeare and Company reading 220–2; on Hitler 234

  Steiner, Rudolf 142, 178–9, 380

  Stelloff, Frances 349

  Stevenson, Quentin 398–9, 400, 401–2, 416

  Stone, Marcus 62

  Stonier, G. W. 241–2

  Stonor, Sherman and Jeanne 438

  Strachey, Lytton 74, 133, 249

  Stravinsky, Igor 70, 151, 190, 350; Symphonies d’instruments à vent 145; Petrouchka 151; Le Sacre du Printemps 151

  Street Songs (E. Sitwell) 287–9, 297, 307

  Sudetenland crisis 265– 6

  Sunday Referee 246

  Sunday Times 182, 383, 409, 412

  Sunday Times book prize 342

  Surrealists 190, 239– 40

  Survey of Modernist Poetry, A (Riding and Graves) 194

  Swedenborg, Emanuel 361

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles 66–7, 98, 427; Anactoria 320, 324

  Swinnerton, Frank 130

  Swinton, Elsie (née Ebsworth) 44, 67–71

  Swinton, George 44, 45, 67–8, 71

  Switzerland 292–3, 298, 301, 335–6, 381

  Sydney 438– 9

  Sydney Morning Herald 439

  Symbolist movement 75

  Symons, Julian 312, 443

  Symons, Arthur 76

  Symphonies d’instruments à vent (Stravinsky) 145

  Szymanowski, Karol 70

  Taglioni, Marie 9

  Tait, Archbishop 16

  Taken Care Of (E. Sitwell) 36, 69, 160, 171, 193, 216, 287, 380, 429, 430, 443

  Talbot, Constance 58–9, 60–1, 63–4, 104

  Talking Bronco (Campbell) 357

  Tanner, Allen 190, 192, 208, 222, 230, 244–5

  Tate, Allen 322, 424

  Tate Gallery 74, 160

  Taylor, Basil 320

  Tchelitchew, Choura 240, 277, 294–5, 325–6, 355

  Tchelitchew, Pavel 1, 5, 7, 265; ES first meets 189; background 189–91; sexuality 190, 192, 395; ES’s correspondence with 6, 33, 191, 336; relationship with ES 191–3, 203–4, 231, 235–6, 246–7, 265, 284, 336, 345, 353–5, 427; Hide and Seek 190, 193, 344, 346–7, 441; Phenomena 193, 222, 264, 346, 441; portraits of ES 193, 255–6; relationship with Bowen 203–4; visa application 206–7; in London 207–9; ES visits, 1931: 219; and Stein 220–2; exhibition, 1932: 224–5; visit to Weston Hall 226; relationship with Charles Ford 231, 347–8; and the Surrealists 239–40; American exhibitions 244–5; Tooth’s Gallery exhibition, 1935: 247–8; fear of war 251; leaves Paris 256; and I Live Under a Black Sun 258–9, 260, 262; exhibition, 1938: 264–5; vernissage, 1939: 266–7; flees Paris 268; in America 271–2; and ES’s war poetry 275; and the fall of France 277; receives news of family 294–5; ES intimidated by 305; and ES’s worries about mind 325–6; ES’s American tour planning 338–9; and ES’s honorary doctorates 343–4; mental illness 344, 348, 355, 363; and ES’s American tour 345–8, 350, 351, 353–4; return to Europe 355; Hanover Gallery exhibition 359; health 361; in Italy 362–3; financial security 363; and ES’s second American tour 367, 369; silence 372; and Fini 373; re-establishes contact with ES 388; and Bachelard 390; Hanover Gallery exhibition,1954: 391; final illness 407; death 193, 408–9; Memorial Exhibition 422; ES sketch published 429; paintings sold 432–3; Gallery of Modern Art exhibition 441

  Tennant, Edward Wyndham (‘Bimbo’) 109, 114, 115

  Tennant, Stephen 109, 202–3, 206, 207, 216

  Texas, University of 406, 433

  Theory of the Earth, The (Burnet) 306

  This is Your Life (TV programme) 48, 437

  Thomas, Caitlin 329–30, 373–4, 382

  Thomas, Dylan 240, 248–9, 257, 328–9, 332, 335, 343, 373–4, 374–5, 381–3, 398, 429; Eighteen Poems 248–9; Twenty-Five Poems 257; Deaths and Entrances 328

  Thomas, Edward 114

  Thomas, R. S. 319

  Thomas Aquinas 132, 397

  Thompson, Lewis 359–60; ‘Black Angel’ 360; Black Sun 360

  Through French Windows (Horner) 266

  The Times 99, 121, 141, 258, 269, 318, 321, 409, 434

  Times Literary Supplement 103–4, 135, 172, 227, 242, 279, 287, 288–9, 311–12, 320, 356–7, 410–11, 419, 441–2

  Todd, Dorothy 176

  Toklas, Alice B. 190, 220–1

  Tonks, Henry 72

  Tonny, Kristian 190

  Tooth’s Gallery 222, 226, 247–8, 264– 5

  Tragedy of Lynching, The (Raper) 234

  Transitions 194

  Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 115

  Tree, Iris 115, 118, 120

  Treece, Henry 240

  Trevelyan, Raleigh 215

  Tribute to the Angels (Doolittle) 314– 15

  Trio (E. Sitwell) 258

  Tripoli 82

  Troy 161–2

  Troy House 162

  Troy Park (E. Sitwell) 174–6

  Tubby, Alfred Herbert 36–8, 41, 51, 62, 102

  Turner, Dame Eva 41

  Turner, W. J. 287, 295

  Twentieth Century Harlequinade (E. Sitwell) 109– 10

  Twenty-Five Poems (Thomas) 257

  Tyler, Parker 191, 231, 239, 346, 347, 353, 427

  Tzara, Tristan 240

  Ulysses (Joyce) 161

  Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology, The (Whyte) 354

  United States of America 266; first publication in 172; lynchings 233–4; Tchelitchew in 271–2; literary traditions 311; reading and lecture tour planned 338–9; ES’s arrival in 344, 345–6; ES tours 345–54; Façade performance 350–1; second tour suggested 356; ES returns to 363–4; ES’s second tour 365–9; entry requirements 376; the McCarran Act 376; ES’s time in Hollywood 376–81, 386–8; ES’s 1955 tour 392–6; ES’s 1957 tour 405–7

  V-1 rockets 312–13

  Valéry, Paul 218–19

  Vandervelde, Lalla 124, 133

  Vaughan Williams, Ralph 352

  Vérey, Mademoiselle 48, 50

  Versen, Fräulein von 52, 54

  Vickers, Hugo 185

  Victoria of England (E. Sitwell) 238, 244, 245, 246, 249–50, 269

  Vidal, Gore 371, 402, 429

  View 284, 330

  Villa, José Garcia 342, 356; Have Come, Am Here 342; A Celebration for Edith Sitwell (ed.) 342–3, 348

  Vines, Sherard 120

  Vogue 168, 177

  Wagner, Richard 276–7

  Wain, John 384

  Wake, Sir Herwald Craufurd 76

  Wake, Joan 76–7, 88, 97, 99, 109

  Waley, Arthur 181, 202, 295, 401

  Wallace, Nellie 170

  Walpole, Sir Hugh 282

  Walton, William 4, 168, 177, 181, 202–3, 289, 357, 363, 374, 424, 436; collaboration with ES 152–7, 181–2; Belshazzar’s Feast 219

  Warsaw, siege of 274

  Washington 349, 393, 406

  Waste Land, The (Eliot) 125, 158, 172–3

  Watson, Gordon 374–5, 411–12

  Watson, Peter 224, 272, 359

  Waugh, Evelyn 13, 136, 282–
3, 291–2, 377, 396, 398–9, 408, 425, 444; Men At Arms 28; Brideshead Revisited 30, 143, 291; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold 408

 

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