Edith Sitwell





Edith Sitwell

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born
September 07, 1887 in Scarborough, England, The United Kingdom

died
December 09, 1964

gender
female

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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE, was a British poet and critic.


Average rating: 3.88 · 170 ratings · 35 reviews · 44 distinct works
The English Eccentrics
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1933 — 3 editions
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Edith Sitwell: Collected Poems
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings6 editions
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Taken Care Of: The Autobiog...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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The Queens And The Hive
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
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Fanfare For Elizabeth
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions
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A Book of the Winter
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1951
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Green Song and Other Poems
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1946
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The Spoken Word: Edith Sitwell
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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I Live Under a Black Sun
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1937 — 3 editions
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Street Songs
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1942
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More books by Edith Sitwell…
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
Edith Sitwell

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
Edith Sitwell

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.”
Edith Sitwell