Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
She was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions captures the full, blazing spectacle of one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary personalities. This definitive biography chronicles the life of Dame Edith Sitwell, from her deeply unhappy aristocratic childhood at Renishaw Hall to her reign as a high priestess of the British avant-garde, illuminating the fierce ambition and wounded pride that drove her extraordinary career as a poet, critic, and self-invented icon. Glendinning writes with scalpel-sharp precision and warm psychological intelligence, presenting a subject who was simultaneously magnificent and maddening — a woman who nurtured the careers of figures like Dylan Thomas and Pavlik Tchelitchew while waging legendary feuds with critics who dared to dismiss her. The biography illustrates how Sitwell's eccentric genius was inseparable from her suffering, arguing that her elaborate self-mythology was both armour and art. Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, this portrait leaves the reader asking a haunting question: was Edith Sitwell truly a neglected genius, or the greatest performance of the century?
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
She was a creature utterly unlike any other — imperious, bizarre, and incandescently gifted — and Victoria Glendinning's Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions captures the full, blazing spectacle of one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary personalities. This definitive biography chronicles the life of Dame Edith Sitwell, from her deeply unhappy aristocratic childhood at Renishaw Hall to her reign as a high priestess of the British avant-garde, illuminating the fierce ambition and wounded pride that drove her extraordinary career as a poet, critic, and self-invented icon. Glendinning writes with scalpel-sharp precision and warm psychological intelligence, presenting a subject who was simultaneously magnificent and maddening — a woman who nurtured the careers of figures like Dylan Thomas and Pavlik Tchelitchew while waging legendary feuds with critics who dared to dismiss her. The biography illustrates how Sitwell's eccentric genius was inseparable from her suffering, arguing that her elaborate self-mythology was both armour and art. Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, this portrait leaves the reader asking a haunting question: was Edith Sitwell truly a neglected genius, or the greatest performance of the century?