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Name: (Francis) Osbert (Sacheverell) Sitwell
Variant Name: Osbert Sitwell, Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Sir Osbert Sitwell
Birth Date: December 6, 1892
Death Date: May 4, 1969
Nationality: British
Gender: Male

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Biography of (Francis) Osbert (Sacheverell) Sitwell
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In the introduction to Great Morning! (1947), the third book of his widely acclaimed five-volume autobiography, Osbert Sitwell referred to himself as "novelist, poet, satirist, and writer of essays," a hierarchical ordering of his literary efforts...
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Biography of (Francis) Osbert (Sacheverell) Sitwell
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In his critical essay on Osbert Sitwell (1951) Roger Fulford tells of his subject's being disparaged for wasting too much time with the aristocratic society to which, by birth, he belonged. The charge, in short, was that Sitwell was lazy. One of...


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Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. ( 1892-12-06 – 1969-05-04 ) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous...


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Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, (December 6, 1892 – May 4, 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell and his younger brother was Sir Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art...


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The Economist (US)
Osbert Sitwell.
07/11/1998: 648 words, approx. 2 pages
Cold fish OSBERT SITWELL. By Philip Ziegler. Chatto; 460 pages; K25 HE LOOKED like an ostrich: ''He had the same slightly ponderous dignity and air of one who might suddenly overbalance and tip forwards.'' That, at any rate, is what Osbert...
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New Criterion
Osbert Sitwell.(Review)
10/01/1998: 2,298 words, approx. 8 pages
Philip Ziegler Osbert Sitwell. Chatto and Windus, 397 pages, 25 [pounds sterling] One of the meanest and truest things that have been said about the Sitwells was E R. Leavis's comment that they belong not so much to the history of literature...
 


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