Displaying 1 of 1 1981 Format: Book Author: Glendinning, Victoria, author. Title: Edith Sitwell : a unicorn among lions / Victoria Glendinning. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Description: xiv, 393 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm Subjects: Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964. Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Genre: Biographies. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index. James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, 1981. Contents: Little E -- Splendours and miseries -- To Bayswater 1914-1918 -- Wheels within wheels 1916-1922 -- Façade 1921-1923 -- Entre'acte: early poetry -- A unicorn among lions 1924-1926 -- Gertrude Stein and the Boyar 1926-1927 -- Hunnish practices and Gold Coast customs 1927-1929 -- Preoccupations in prose 1929-1930 -- French leave 1930-1932 -- Entr'acte: Maiden voyage -- Good-bye to Bayswater 1932 -- Rats in the woodwork 1932-1934 -- Brickbats and a best seller 1934-1937 -- A youthful silenus 1936-1937 -- Under a black sun 1937-1939 -- War 1940-1943 -- Life and death 1943-1944 -- The terrible rain 1944-1946 -- Postwar fanfare 1946-1947 -- Left turn 1948 -- Pyrrhic victories-1948-1949 -- Rows and reconciliations 1949-1950 -- Entr'acte: Montages 1950-1952 -- Deaths and entrances 1953-1954 -- God and mammon 1954-1955 -- Declines and falls 1957-1961 -- Taken care of 1962-1964. LCCN: 80002721 ISBN: 0394504399 9780394504391 Other Number: 7175208 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 17814 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Sitwell Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
