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A Short Biography of Dame Edith Sitwell

Author Name:

Dame Edith Sitwell

Born As:

Edith Sitwell

Other Names:

Dame Edith Sitwell

Born:

7 Sep 1887

Died:

9 Dec 1964




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Biographer, Atheist, Critic, Novelist and Poet                          
Selected Works:

Poetry Collections: Wikisource has original works written by or about:
Edith Sitwell - 

Clowns' Houses - 1918 
Rustic Elegies - 1927 
Gold Coast Customs - 1929

Still Falls the Rain - 1941, about the London blitz, remains perhaps her best-known poem and was set to music by Benjamin Britten as Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain.

Street Songs - 1942 
The Song of the Cold - 1945 
The Shadow of Cain - 1947 

Façade, and Other Poems 1920-1935 - 1950 
Gardeners and Astronomers - 1953 
Collected Poems - 1957 
The Outcasts - 1962 

Other Books:

Alexander Pope - 1930 
The English Eccentrics - 1933 
I Live under a Black Sun - 1937 
Fanfare for Elizabeth - 1946  - Biography of Elizabeth I 
The Queens and the Hive - 1962  - Biography of Elizabeth I 
Taken Care Of - 1964 Autobiography.                          
Mother  Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison
Father Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall, three children, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell.