Edith Sitwell

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A biography of British poet and critic Edith Sitwel (1887-1964). Freed from her unhappy home life she set up home in a shabby London flat: she became - almost overnight - one of the best-known 1920s pioneering poets. Her good looks attracted the photographer Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. She befriended Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The thirties she spent in penury, writing her novels, poems and biographies and it was only when Yeats hailed her as "a major poet" that her work reached a wider audience and she set off to conquer New York and Hollywood. Drawing on Edith's brilliantly funny and often outrageous letters, the author shows the spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman behind the public image