Edith Sitwell English Women

Sitwell, Edith. ENGLISH WOMEN.
In everyday life the Engish woman is a creature of a broad humanity, tolerant and with a wide calm patience and loyalty which is as strong as those great trees which are among the beauties of England. Elizabeth Tudor's greatness, though she had much of the subtelty of and Italian of the Renaissance, was an English greatness, with an English fire and an English strength. The author has chosen a few woman among many thousands in whom that quintessence of character expressed itself, sometimes in the acts of their dailt life, sometimes in creative work of another kind.

1942. William Collins. First. Book: VG+, with some wear, light blue cover with white illustration. 9x6.5. 48pp. Illustrated with 8 colour plates and 27 b/w illustrations.

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Sitwell, Sir Osbert: Left Hand, Right Hand! Boston, MA Little Brown & Company 1948
None Stated Near Fine

Hard cover with brown cloth-covered boards and spine, gold printing on spine and on black ground on spine and front cover, is in NEAR FINE condition. Light rubbing to spine ends. PO's name neatly written in ink on front free endpaper. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY GOOD. Modest amount of edgewear overall. "Left Hand, Right Hand!" is a blending of memoir and autobiography by a master of English prose. Not since the Brontes has an English family produced in one generation three such talented writers as Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell. Their early and impressionable years were spent in Renishaw Hall which has been the home of the Sitwells since 1625, and in this frank and exceedingly amusing book it is Sir Osbert's purpose to show how his generation has been formed and influenced by the passionate and adventurous men and women who lived before him in Renishaw and whose lives have made that legendary house a miniature portrait gallery of all England. First Edition/8th Printing Stated Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Brown Cloth-Covered Boards

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SITWELL,EDITH: Taken Care Of. London Hutchinson 1965

Autobiography of one of England's modern poets.Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Photos. 192pp. First Edition Very Good Hardcover

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Sitwell, Edith. GARDENERS AND ASTRONOMERS. New York The Vanguard Press 1953

First American Edition by one of Britain's most prominent and celebrated women poets throughout four decades. Among the notable admirers of Sitwell's work were W. B. Yeats, Stephen Spender, Marianne Moore and Siegfried Sassoon. Described by Cyril Co nnolly as an 'alternative to Bloomsbury', Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, were the focus of a significant movement in English literature. 8vo. 60 pp. With six black and white illustrations. An about very good copy showing som e damping to the front and back boards and inside the dustwrapper that has minor chipping to the crown of the spine and top of the front panel. Priced accordingly. (Fifoot EA48b). 1st Edition

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