The Sitwells

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.

[2] These were seen either as a counterweight to the contemporary Edward Marsh Georgian Poetry anthologies, or as light 'society verse' collections.

[3] Wood End, the former family home of the Sitwells in Scarborough has been redeveloped into a "creative industries centre" providing artists' workspace as well as administrative and learning spaces.

[5] A large collection of the Sitwells' papers reside at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas, Austin.

John Singer Sargent , The Sitwell Family , 1900. Private collection . From left: Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), Sir George Sitwell , Lady Ida, Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), and Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969).
Group photograph with four clean-shaven white men and one woman in full-length frock
In 1926: left to right Osbert , Edith , Sacheverell , William Walton , and, with the Façade megaphone, Neil Porter of the Old Vic .
Blue plaque on Wood End in Scarborough , one of the family homes of the Sitwells