{"product_id":"2026200011779-secondhand-edith-sitwell-a-unicorn-among-lions","title":"Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the most singular and divisive figures in twentieth-century British literature. Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions chronicles the extraordinary life of this towering poet and provocateur, tracing her origins in a cold and loveless aristocratic household, through her ascent to the pinnacle of London's literary and bohemian society, where she held court over a dazzling constellation of artists, writers, and composers. With meticulous research and vivid narrative command, Glendinning presents the full panorama of a woman who wielded her strangeness as armour and her verse as a weapon, feuding furiously with critics while championing the avant-garde with missionary zeal.\n\nGlendinning — herself a biographer of formidable reputation — brings the same incisive psychological acuity to Sitwell's story that earned her the Whitbread Biography Prize for this very work, illustrating how genius and vulnerability can inhabit the same ornate, jewel-draped frame. The biography argues persuasively that Sitwell's flamboyant public persona was inseparable from her art, a lifelong performance born of profound personal pain. Deeply researched and elegantly written, A Unicorn Among Lions stands as the definitive portrait of a literary lioness — and leaves the reader wondering whether Edith Sitwell was, in truth, the last of her kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130862051547,"sku":"2026200011779-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1b59b9c5-cc8f-4fa2-b17f-2256e04fefad.png?v=1786591311","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011779-secondhand-edith-sitwell-a-unicorn-among-lions","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}