LONDON — Dame Edith Sitwell’s feathery hats, bohemian garb and distinctive jewels and gemstones will go under the hammer in November as part of a sale of personal effects, furnishings and interior ...
Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “My hands are my face,” the English aristocrat and eccentric Edith Sitwell ...
__From Left:__ Edith Sitwell, photographed by Cecil Beaton, in 1962; A view of the Renishaw Hall estate in a 1930s photograph by John Piper; Osbert, Edith, and ...
Edith’s eccentricity, not to mention that of her brothers and parents, may have come from the fact that the Sitwell family included among their ancestors not only kings of France and the English ...
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