A collection of poems and letters by English poet, Dame Edith Sitwell.

Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet, prose author and renowned eccentric. Sitwell was born into a prominent literary family and participated in literary endeavors with her brothers, Sir Osbert Sitwell and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell. Her first book, The Mother and Other Poems, was published in 1915, and Sitwell steadily published poetry from this point until her death; her volume of Collected Poems was published in 1930 and her last book of poems, The Outcasts, appeared in 1962. Although chiefly known as a poet, Sitwell also composed works in prose, many of which were nonfiction works and biographies. In 1953 Sitwell completed a film script based on her book on the life of Elizabeth I, A fanfare for Elizabeth (1946). A book of Sitwell's letters, Selected Letters, was published in 1970, six years after her death.

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