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Edith Sitwell

July 2024

  • A small town garden

    The Guardian view on gardens: needed for council homes, not just stately homes

    Editorial: Previous generations built substantial amounts of local authority housing with gardens. We should learn from their example

December 2022

  • Geoffrey Elborn

    Other lives
    Geoffrey Elborn obituary

    Other lives: Biographer who studied the life of Edith Sitwell and also wrote a history of vodka

January 2022

  • The photograph was taken during a rehearsal with Corali and Thick & Tight for the stage section on Culture in the Saturday magazine. Part of the group are: Housni Hassan (Corali), Jackie Ryan (Corali), Graham Evans (Corali), Veweshia Bailey (Corali), Sarah Archdeacon (Corali), Eleanor Perry (Thick&Tight) and Daniel Hay-Gordon. Photograph: Alecsandra Dragoi for the Guardian

    ‘Bam! Incredible energy’ – how a group of performers with learning disabilities are changing dance

    For 30 years, pioneering company Corali has subverted audience expectations. Now it’s helping queer-dance duo Thick & Tight with a work about poet Edith Sitwell

August 2021

  • Edith Sitwell in 1956.

    ‘Cat Torturers names withheld’: Edith Sitwell’s gossipy address book found

    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

May 2021

  • Intrigued by each other ... Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe in 1953.

    Lockdown culture
    The Dame and the Showgirl review – when Edith Sitwell met Marilyn Monroe

    Emma Thompson plays the poet and Sinead Matthews is the breathy movie star in Simon Berry’s compelling audio play

November 2018

  • A scene from the film Vampyr - Der Traum Des Allan Grey

    Brief letters
    Don’t fear the reaper, it’s a waste of time

    Letters: OS merchandise | Death advice | Sitwell siblings | Lewes bonfire | Banknote design

November 2015

  • Photograph of WH Auden

    Reports of my death
    Clive James: ‘Poets in the free countries don’t get famous’

    All real poets start off by being fascinated by the sound of words. Do they all write something but mean something else?

April 2014

  • PJ Harvey

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: eccentric songs

    Oddballs to the outlandish, it's time to define, refine and name songs that express and celebrate eccentricity in all its forms, says Peter Kimpton

November 2011

  • Sitwell

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 13 November 1960: When Sitwells met Lawrences

    Originally published in the Observer on 13 November 1960: Dame Edith Sitwell begins a series of reminiscences by describing her run-in with DH Lawrence in Tuscany

September 2011

  • Edith Sitwell

    New Bloomsbury digital imprint revives hundreds of neglected classics

    Work by Edith Sitwell, Monica Dickens and VS Pritchett among 230 previously out-of-print titles launching publisher's new ebook list

May 2011

  • Dame Edith Sitwell

    Bloomsbury brings Edith Sitwell to the ebook

  • Great dynasties of the world
    Great dynasties of the world: The Sitwells

March 2011

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye

  • Edith Sitwell

    Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene – review

February 2011

  • sitwell

    Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene – review

    If Edith Sitwell was a pioneering modernist genius, as this definitive new biography suggests, her gift was not so much for poetry as for an outsider life well lived, writes Rachel Cooke

September 2008

  • The Spoken Word

    Review: The Spoken Word by Edith Sitwell
    You can't see the majestic furs and extravagant brocades she wore, but you can hear them in her voice says Rachel Redford

January 2007

  • No sleep, 'til bedtime! Edith Sitwell, grandmutha of rap, queen mutha of bling.

    Music blog
    Strictly old skool!

    Poet Edith Sitwell invented rap in 1922! Back when Ice T was a cool beverage, way back when Diddy was Sean Combs, she was dropping dope rhymes with a megaphone. Believe!

July 2006

  • The bishop's ketchup

    Jeremy Noel-Tod plots a course through the Collected Poems of the erratic Edith Sitwell.

July 2002

  • The six greatest works of William Walton

    Facade (1922)
    Settings of poems by Edith Sitwell for reciters and chamber group. Includes version of I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside.

October 1999

  • Valerie Lloyd

    Valerie Lloyd, who has died aged 54, was one of a generation of photographic curators and librarians who came of age in the 1970s. A great collector, she was once described - in her flowing garments and exotic jewellery - as "akin to Edith Sitwell, as photographed by Cecil Beaton".
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