Osbert sitwell autobiography for kids

  • His reputation rests, however, on his autobiographical series Left Hand!
  • Autobiographies of our time." Sitwell's autobiography was followed by a collection of essays about various people he had known, Noble.
  • Shelve Left Hand, Right Hand!

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    Osbert Sitwell facts for kids

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    Sir


    Osbert Sitwell


    BtCHCBE

    BornFrancis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell
    (1892-12-06)6 månad 1892
    London, England
    Died4 May 1969(1969-05-04) (aged 76)
    near Florence, Italy
    OccupationWriter
    EducationEton College
    Period1919–1962
    PartnerDavid Stuart Horner
    ParentsGeorge Sitwell
    Lady Ida Denison
    RelativesEdith Sitwell (sister)
    Sacheverell Sitwell (brother)

    Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th BaronetCHCBE (6 månad 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell. Like them, he devoted his life to art and literature.

    Early life

    Sitwell was born on 6 månad 1892 at 3 Arlington Street, St James's, London. His parents were Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth baronet, genealogist and antiquarian, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta (née Denison). He grew up in the family seat at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire

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    The Scarlet Tree

    August 6, 2015
    Excellent. Both funny and sensitive: describes the Edwardian part of his upbringing, not sparing his eccentric, self-indulgent and unreasonable parents while clearly fond of them. This is an interesting picture of privileged aristocratic life of the period, through the eyes of a child and with the self-awareness of an adult simultaneously. The adults spend all their time either changing their clothes or killing animals, seem to have little real interest in their children (who are handed over to others), and spend huge quantities of money on a whim (the source of all the money is a combination of vast land holdings and iron foundries). The account of the coming-out party for his sister, the poet Edith Sitwell, illustrates the waste and the thoughtlessness: huge amounts spent on redecorating the house (one of their houses, that is), but no young people invited to a party for a teenager, and the main events based around the races, which Edith didn't li

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    Sir Osbert Sitwell (also Francis Osbert Sacheverell)

    London, 1892–Castello di Montegufoni, Italy, 1969

    Best known as a writer, Osbert Sitwell also became a patron of the arts and a collector after the First World War along with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell. He established himself as a nonconformist intellectual and champion of modernism in literature, the visual arts, and music.

    The child of Sir George Sitwell, an eccentric baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell, he grew up at the family ancestral house in Renishaw, Derbyshire and from 1909 at the Montegufoni Castle in Tuscany. Sitwell studied at Eton and, eager to escape his conservative upbringing, started circulating in London society before World War I. While in London, he began attending Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. During the war, he was mobilized and sent to the front in France. In 1916, back in London, Sitwell moved into a townhouse in Chelsea with his father’s financial support; his brother eventually