Edith Sitwell
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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