Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in ...

As Dame Edith Sitwell's eccentric wardrobe goes up for auction, her great nephew reflects fondly on a life less ordinary William Sitwell is the restaurant critic and a columnist for The Telegraph, as ...

DAME EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) proclaimed that she was not eccentric, just “more alive than most people…an unpopular electric eel in a pool…of catfish”. If not eccentric, she was certainly gloriously ...

Detailing hundreds of the poet’s acquaintances and why they irked or charmed her, its entries are busy with names from Gore Vidal to Elizabeth Arden and the Queen Mother Edith Sitwell was known for ...

Dame Edith Sitwell's address book includes notes on people such as "psychopath who insulted me after television" and "well-meaning American pest" A rare Islamic atlas and the address book of ...

‘Gothic enough to hang bells in’ was, apparently, the response of one American visitor to a portrait of Edith Sitwell in the Tate. Elizabeth Bowen, herself an imposing physical presence, described ...

For three centuries, the Sitwells have dominated the literary and artistic landscapes, with generation after generation of writers, eccentrics and creatives amongst their number. Since the 18th ...

Jackson is just so Jacksonian throughout: projecting fast-thinking and decisive intelligence, and a complete inability to suffer fools. By Antonia Quirke Ah, bliss. This is an eccentric play (17 March ...

LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in November as part of a sale of personal effects, furnishings and interior ...