Dame Edith Sitwell
photographed by Jane Brown
for the Observer May 7 1959
This was taken for a series of articles entitled 'My Clothes and I'.
Dame Edith, that "throwback to the Plantagenets" as she likes to put it, sat erect in the corner of a cosy cretonne sofa. The sofa was in the television room of the London Ladies Club and her face lit it as the moon would illuminate a bus.
Her face is in fact as alien to the conventional human face as the moon is to an electric light bulb.
Her face is in fact as alien to the conventional human face as the moon is to an electric light bulb.
Observer 10 May 1959: Jane recalls: 'I felt such a novice. She was sitting almost in the dark and I didn't dare move her. I was pretty speechless. I wasn't one for talking but I must have seen something'.
-excerpted from the Observer.
more about Edith Sitwell on Monday-
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