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petaltexturedskies · 5 months
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Edith Sitwell, from "Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell"
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trees-and-planets · 1 year
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— Edith Sitwell, from "Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of E. S.,"
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requiem-on-water · 5 months
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when edith sitwell said “i always was a little outside life” and when anaïs nin said “i watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”
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thecinamonroe · 1 year
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Marilyn Monroe and British poet, Edith Sitwell, January, 1953.
“In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had great natural dignity (I cannot imagine anyone who knew her trying to take a liberty with her) and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive.” — Edith Sitwell on Marilyn, from Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell.
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andallshallbewell · 2 months
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semioticapocalypse · 2 months
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Horst P. Horst. Edith Sitwell. New York. 1948
I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk
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longreads · 1 year
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But what do we really mean when we call someone eccentric? The word renders a verdict of harmlessness: A person’s style, conduct, or mannerisms may be memorable, but not concerning. And truthfully, we need people who are a bit of a character (to use an equally common euphemism). Their difference reinforces our sense of stability, their peculiarity a necessary splash of color in a landscape of conformity. We love to hear about them, to speculate why they are as they are — the odder, the better. Whether in documentaries like Grey Gardens or the five stories collected here, well-reported tales of quirkiness always invoke a small thrill, vaulting their subjects out of the realm of local gossip and into a wider imagination.
However, it’s no accident that every entry here concerns individuals who are, to varying degrees, rich or famous. The sad truth is that the lives of the everyday working class are seldom celebrated, and least of all those whose habits and personalities fall outside of the bounds of “normal.” To quote a character in Ellen Raskin’s novel The Westing Game, “the poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.” Wealth affords many privileges in life, among them the indulgence of oddity, and such indulgence is only magnified in the face of celebrity. Behavior that would be considered problematic becomes acceptable, even admired as a natural by-product of genius.
Check out “Pawns, Puppet Heads, and Paranoia,” Chris Wheatley’s quirky new reading list on eccentrics!
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auntieblues · 3 months
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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
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random-brushstrokes · 9 months
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Christopher R. W. Nevinson - Portrait of Edith Sitwell (1927)
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 month
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Cecil Beaton, Edith Sitwell, 1926
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petaltexturedskies · 3 months
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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
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desimonewayland · 1 year
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Edith Sitwell 1926
Photographed by Cecil Beaton
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thodi · 11 months
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andallshallbewell · 1 year
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civanticism · 9 months
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Civanticism — The reason of Humanism and the compassion of Buddhism, with a touch of snark for good measure. https://www.civanticism.com/
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fashionbooksmilano · 1 year
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Edith Sitwell
A Unicorn Amongs Lions
Victoria Glendinning
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1981, 393 pages, 20 illustrated pages, 13 x 20 cm, ISBN  0297778013
euro 30,00
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Freed from her unhappy homelife, Edith Sitwell set up home in a shabby London flat: she became one of the best-known 1920s pioneering poets. Victoria Glendinning presents a biography of a woman known for her eccentricity and gothic appearance.
Her looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. The 1930s she spent in penury, writing fiction, biography and verse. Only when Yeats hailed her as 'a major poet' did her work reach a wider audience, whereupon Edith Sitwell set off to conquer New York and Hollywood.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, this is the definitive portrait of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman.
'The excellence of Mrs Glendinning's book is that it remains wise and balanced while never sacrificing critical edge... It's hard to imagine a life of Edith Sitwell that could surpass it.' John Carey, "Sunday Times"
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