This biography looks at the life and work of Sacheverell Sitwell, poet, writer, traveller and aesthetic adventurer. Drawing on a large collection of family papers, this book reconstructs Sachie's life at the epicentre of English culture and the range of his friendships, literary, artistic and social with, among others, T.S. Eliot, William Walton, Diaghilev, Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, and Bendor, Duke of Westminster. Underpinning his life is the extraordinary story of the Sitwell family, of Sachie's father, the eccentric, machiavellian Sir George, his mother, the tragic Lady Ida, and their lives in their vast and haunted ancestral home, Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire and their medieval castle in Tuscany. Above all, the book traces the symbiotic relationship between the siblings, Edith, Osbert and Sachie.
- ISBN10 1856191605
- ISBN13 9781856191609
- Publish Date 10 June 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English