Sitwell
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Dame Edith, 1887–1964, English poet and critic.
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her brother Sir Osbert, 1892–1969, English poet and novelist.
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her brother Sir Sacheverell 1897–1988, English poet, novelist, and art critic.
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Dame Edith. 1887–1964, English poet and critic, noted esp for her collection Façade (1922)
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her brother, Sir Osbert. 1892–1969, English writer, best known for his five autobiographical books (1944–50)
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his brother, Sir Sacheverell (səˈʃɛvərəl). 1897–1988, English poet and writer of books on art, architecture, music, and travel
Example Sentences
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London Road was closed between the junction of Sitwell Place and the Crowther Place turn-off but reopened on Tuesday afternoon.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
Stein and Woolf met just once, at the London home of Edith Sitwell in 1926.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Glen Sitwell, a building manager who watched all of this play out from his corner office, said the aggressive posture of the agents took him aback.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025
The designer loves to pluck maverick characters out of British history as inspirations; this season was the turn of the poet Edith Sitwell and Ottoline Morrell, an aristocratic philanthropist.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021
R. L. S. To Mrs. Sitwell The following are two different impressions of the Mediterranean, dated on two different Mondays in January:— Yes, I am much better; very much better I think I may say.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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