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Sir Osbert Sitwell

Male : Poet and critic. Invalided from WW1 in 1916
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1892 Date of Death : 1969 Age : 77

Education : Eton
1919-1925
The Winstonburg Line : Three Satires
(1919 Hendersons, The Bomb Shop, London)
Argonaut and Juggernaut
(1919 Chatto & Windus)
At the House of Mrs Kinfoot
(1921 Favil Press, Kensington) - 101
Who Killed Cock-Robin ? Remarks on Poetry
(1921 C W Daniel, London)
Out of the Flame
(1923 Grant Richards)
Triple Fugue
(1924 Grant Richards)
Discursions on Travel, Art & Life
(1925 Grant Richards)
C R W Nevinson
(1925 Scribner NY)

1926-1930
Before the Bombardment
(1926 Duckworth) - 1st Novel
England Reclaimed : A Book of Eclogues
(1927 Duckworth) - 165 signed
All at Sea : A Social Tragedy in Three Acts
(1927 Duckworth) - with Sacheverell Sitwell
The People's Album of London Statues
(1928 Duckworth) - 116 signed & numbered Nina Hamnett
(1928 Duckworth)
Miss Mew
(1929 Mill House Press, Stanford Dingley) - 100
The Man who Lost Himself
(1929 Duckworth)
Dumb-Animal & Other Stories
(1930 Duckworth) - 110 signed
Sober Truth : A Collection of 19thC Episodes Fantastic, Grotesque & Mysterious
(1930 Macdonald) - with Margaret Barton

1931-1935
The Collected Satires and Poems
(1931 Duckworth) - 110 signed
Three-Quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arlen
(1931 Heinemann) - 520
Victoriana : A Symposium of Victorian Wisdom
(1931 Duckworth) - with Margaret Barton
Open the Door !
(1931)
Winters of Content : On Travel, Art & Life
(1932 Duckworth)
Dickens
(1932 Chatto & Windus) - 110 signed
Miracle on Sinai : A Satirical Novel
(1933 Duckworth)
Canons of Giant Art : Poems
(1933)
The Four Continents
(1934 Macmillan)
A Background for Domenico Scarlatti
(1935)
Brighton
(1935 Faber) - with Margaret Barton
Penny Foolish : A Book of Tirades and Panegyrics
(1935 Macmillan)

1936-1940
Collected Poems
(1936)
Dance of the Quick and the Dead
(1936)
Mrs Kimber
(1937 Macmillan) - 500 - 8 drawings by Mary Kessell
La Vie Parisienne
(1937)
Those were the Days
(1938 Macmillan)
Roumanian Journey
(1938 Batsford)
Escape With Me ! : An Oriental Sketch-Book
(1939 Macmillan) (1940 Harrison, Hilton, NY)
Two Generations
(1940 Macmillan)

1941-1945
A Place of One's Own
(1941 Macmillan)
[Filmed in 1944]
Gentle Caesar : A Play in Three Acts
(1942 Macmillan) - with R J Minney
Selected Poems Old & New
(1943 Duckworth)
A Letter to My Son
(1944 Home & Van Thal)
Sing High ! Sing Low ! : A Book of Essays
(1944 Macmillan)
Left Hand, Right Hand
(1944 Little Brown) - 5 vols (1945 Macmillan) - autobiography
The True Story of Dick Whittington : A Christmas Story for Cat Lovers
(1945 Home & Van Thal)

1946-1950
The Scarlet Tree
(1946 LB) (1946 Macmillan) - autobiog
The Novels of George Meredith
(1947 Oxford - Presidential Address of the English Assoc
Great Morning (1948 LB) (1948 Macmillan) - autobiog
Four Songs of the Italian Earth
(1948 Banyan Press, NY) - 260 signed
Laughter in the Next Room
(1948 LB) (1949 Macmillan) - autobiog
Demos the Emperor : A Secular Oratorio
(1949 Macmillan) - 500 signed
The Death of a God & Other Stories
(1949 Macmillan)
Noble Essences
(1950 Macmillan) (1950 LB) - autobiog

After 1951
Wrack at Tidesend
(1952 Macmillan)
Collected Stories
(1953 Duckworth & Macmillan)
The Four Continents
(1954 Macmillan)
On the Continent : A Book of Inquilinics
(1958)
Tales My Father Taught Me
(1962 Hutchinson)
Pound Wise
(1963 Hutchinson)
Poems About People, or England Reclaimed
(1965 Hutchinson)
Queen Mary & Others
(1974 Michael Joseph)

READING
R L Megroz : The Three Sitwells : A Biographical & Critical Study
(1927 Richards Press)
A Rutherston & Thomas Balston : Sitwelliana 1915-1927 : Being a Handlist of Works
by the Sitwells
(1928 Duckworth)
R Fifoot : A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell
(1971 OUP. 2nd Ed)
John Pearson : The Sitwells - A Family Biography
(1978 NY)

Related Writers

George Meredith
Sacheverell Sitwell