Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell, (1887-1964). British poet. From 1916 to 1921 she edited Wheels, an annual anthology of modern poetry. Façade, a sequence of her nonsense poems with music by Sir William Walton, caused an uproar on its first performance in 1923. Her later more serious work includes a number of poems inspired by the Blitz and the atomic bomb. Well known for her eccentric dress and manner, she was made a DBE in 1954. Her brother Sir Osbert (1892-1969) wrote satirical verse, short stories, novels, and a notable five-volume autobiography. Their brother Sacheverell (1897-88) was a poet, essayist, and art critic.
