Fanfare for Elizabeth

NY/London: Macmillan, 1946.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Very good hardcover. Text clean. Spine lightly faded. Very minor spine twist. Solid book. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Item #229710

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Edith Sitwell
birth name: Edith Sitwell
born: 9/7/1887
died: 12/9/1964

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Biography

English poet who first gained fame for her stylistic artifices but who emerged during World War II as a poet of emotional depth and profoundly human concerns. She was equally famed for her formidable personality, Elizabethan dress, and eccentric opinions. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
She was the older sister of authors Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell.more