The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

by Sarah Bradford, Jonathan Fryer, Robin Gibson

This illustrated biography of the Sitwell family accompanies a major 1994 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Genres: Art

239 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1995

About the author

Educated at St. Mary’s Convent, Shaftesbury Dorset, where she won a State Scholarship and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she won a College Scholarship in History, Sarah Bradford is an historian and biographer who has travelled extensively, living in the West Indies, Portugal and Italy. She speaks four languages which have been invaluable in her research for her various books, particularly The Englishman’s Wine, the Story of Port (the first book on the subject written by a woman), Portugal and Madeira. She worked in the Manuscript Department of Christie’s London, travelling for the Department and valuing manuscripts from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, an experience which enabled her to write Cesare Borgia (used by the BBC as the source of their series ‘The Borgias’, for which she wrote the novelisation of the scripts) and, most recently, Lucrezia Borgia

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Both more and less than I wanted to know. Assorted authors so the quality of the text was a bit uneven but the visuals were plentiful and fabulous. Essentially the catalog to a show at the National Portrait Gallery in England.

[Colby Bird]

you think your probably-trust funded friends are taken care of?