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Edith Sitwell


Born
in Scarborough, England
September 07, 1887

Died
December 09, 1964

Genre
Poetry, Nonfiction


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

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Average rating: 3.76 · 905 ratings · 127 reviews · 126 distinct works • Similar authors
The English Eccentrics
3.81 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1933 — 52 editions
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Edith Sitwell: Collected Poems
3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1954 — 13 editions
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Taken Care Of: The Autobiog...
3.50 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1965 — 29 editions
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I Live Under a Black Sun
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4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1937 — 11 editions
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Fanfare for Elizabeth
3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1946 — 24 editions
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The Poetry Of Dame Edith Si...
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Victoria Of England
3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1936 — 26 editions
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Facade and other poems, 192...
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions
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A Book of the Winter
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1951 — 8 editions
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1932 — 23 editions
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“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
tags: comfort, home, winter
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“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 catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell
tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality
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“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell
tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
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