Osbert sitwell biography of martin

20th century sibling writers and literary personas

The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and the family seat of Renishaw Hall, were three siblings who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930.

This was marked by some well-publicised events, notably Edith's Façade with music by William Walton, with its public debut in 1923. All three Sitwells wrote; for a while their circle was considered by some to rival Bloomsbury, though others dismissed them as attention-seekers rather than serious artists.^[1]

Wheels anthologies

The first Sitwell venture was the series of Wheelsanthologies produced from 1916.^[2] These were seen either as a counterweight to the contemporary Edward MarshGeorgian Poetry anthologies, or as light 'society verse' collections.^{[citation needed]} They did not reall