Facades: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell

by John Pearson

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Reader

, 2011

Overview

First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century’s most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in Cyril Connolly’s words, ‘had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.’ Picking up protégés and starting feuds with equal alacrity they were never far from controversy and were often slighted for being better known for the façades which they put up around their work rather than their artistic out-put in itself. Whether these façades were set up to hide their art or their deeply conflicted personal lives is one of the most compelling problems brought up by Pearson. With as much attention paid to both the private and public aspects of their lives, this biography captures the manifest intrigue of one of England’s strangest and most flamboyant families, and the whole host of fascinating characters from T.S Eliot to Gertrude Stein, with whom their paths intersect.

Praise for Facades

Pearson has done an admirable job

Product Details

• Title: Facades: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell
• Author: John Pearson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 540
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781448207800, 1448207800
• Resource ID: LLS:9781448207800
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:58:14Z

About John Pearson

John Pearson (1613 – 1686) was an English theologian and scholar. Born in Norfolk, he studied at Eton College and Queens' College Cambridge. He was elected as a scholar at King's College, Cambridgein 1632. After taking orders the church he served in Salisbury until 1640. Following the Engilsh Civil War, he served as the weekly preacher at St. Clement's in London. In 1659 he published his famous Exposition of the Creed. Appointed bishop of Chester in 1672, he died there fourteen years later in 1686 and is curied in the Cathedral.