Edith wasn’t humourless. The poems were meant to be funny, and she told a later interviewer that “I can’t wear fashionable clothes... I’m a throwback to remote ancestors ... if I wore coats and skirts ... people would doubt the existence of the Almighty”
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John Freeman talks to poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell about her life and work. (1959)
