Splendours and Miseries: Biography of Sacheverell Sitwell

by SarahH.Bradford (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.31

  This biography looks at the life and work of Sacheverell Sitwell, poet, writer, traveller and aesthetic adventurer. Drawing on a large collection of family papers, this book reconstructs Sachie's life at the epicentre of English culture and the range of his friendships, literary, artistic and social with, among others, T.S. Eliot, William Walton, Diaghilev, Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, and Bendor, Duke of Westminster. Underpinning his life is the extraordinary story of the Sitwell family, of Sachie's father, the eccentric, machiavellian Sir George, his mother, the tragic Lady Ida, and their lives in their vast and haunted ancestral home, Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire and their medieval castle in Tuscany. Above all, the book traces the symbiotic relationship between the siblings, Edith, Osbert and Sachie.

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  Paperback
  1994

  $4.32

  Drawing on unpublished family papers, Bradford reconstructs Sacheverell Sitwell's life at the epicentre of English culture in the first half of this century. She examines the range of his friendships, literary, artistic and social with - among others - T.S. Eliot, William Walton and the Duke of Westminster. The author also examines the remarkable story of the Sitwell family, including the eccentric Sir George and Lady Ida, and the symbiotic relationship between the three literary siblings Edith, Osbert and Sachie.