Of all the portraits of Edith Sitwell, perhaps this one painted in 1918 by Roger Fry captures the very essence of her character. Elizabeth Jenkins wrote in her memoir ‘The View From Downshire Hill’ that as the secretary of the Newnham Literary Society it was her job to invite Sitwell to address them. ‘Shall we say: “please wear everything you’ve got?” said Jenkins to Miss Strachey, Principal of the club. “I don’t think that will be necessary” Strachey replied. Sitwell did not disappoint, appearing in a high necked, long sleeved, wide, floor length skirt of grass green brocade embroidered with gold palm leaves, enormous aquamarines on her fabulously long fingers. Referring to herself and her two brothers: “We all have the remote air of a legend.” How true.
Of all the portraits of Edith Sitwell
Of all the portraits of Edith Sitwell, perhaps this one painted in 1918 by Roger Fry captures the very essence of her character. Elizabeth Jenkins wrote in her memoir ‘The View From Downshire Hill’ th
