Edith SitwellBorn into a privileged family of eccentrics Edith Sitwell set out during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon T. S. Eliot Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein she ran an unlikely London literary salon that attracted most of the great writers and artists of the day. Her quips and anecdotes grew legendary and she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. Regarded in her own time as a

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