Poetry Of Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a ‘cure’ which involved locking her into an iron frame. In 1913 Edith began to publish her poetry, her first was in the Daily Mirr...
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a ‘cure’ which involved locking her into an iron frame. In 1913 Edith began to publish her poetry, her first was in the Daily Mirr...
