Edith Sitwell - A Unicorn among Lions

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Glendinning Klappentext Her looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley! T S Eliot! and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter! Pavel Tchelitchew. This title tells the story of a spontaneous! gallant! yet tragically insecure woman. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, this is the definitive portrait of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman. 'The excellence of Mrs Glendinning's book is that it remains wise and balanced while never sacrificing critical edge...

Product details

• Authors: Miles Gibson, Victoria Glendinning, Glendinning Victoria
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2013
• EAN: 9780571296460
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29646-0
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies