Victoria Glendinning wrote a life of the famous sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell that is still worth reading. Then again, in her own time, Sitwell had several redoubtable admirers: W. B.

LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND—Sir Osbert SitwelI—Little, Brown ($3). All scions, says Sir Osbert Sitwell, have a tail. A scion’s tail, Sir Osbert explains, is the life of his ancestors, who spread out behind ...

“Osbert Sitwell,” by Philip Ziegler. Alfred A. Knopf. 464 pages. $30. It may seem hard to believe, but the Sitwells — that trio of aristocratic sibling-aesthetes, Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell — once ...

LAUGHTER IN THE NEXT ROOM (400 pp.) —Sir Osbert Sitwell—Little, Brown ($4). Life With Father is not merely the title of a play; it is fast becoming the right name for a whole period—the days when ...

New to BBC Radio 4 Extra Sir John Gielgud stars in the postscript to Osbert Sitwell’s autobiography, described by George Orwell as “among the best autobiographies of our time”. Osbert Sitwell, brother ...

HE LOOKED like an ostrich: “He had the same slightly ponderous dignity and air of one who might suddenly overbalance and tip forwards.” That, at any rate, is what Osbert Sitwell's biographer thinks.

Opening his post one morning, in April 1940, John Piper found a set of postcards of Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire. They came with a letter from Sir Osbert Sitwell. The previous year, while writing a ...

He was one of a trio of artists and arts patrons described unkindly by Noel Coward as “two wiseacres and a cow”, but nearly a century on, his legacy is deemed worthy of an exhibition in its own right.

Remarkably the house has had only three owners since 1862. The Sitwells trace their ancestry back to Simon Sitwell in 1301, and in the 14th century the family held lands in the parish of Eckington.