For nearly forty years, the poetry of Edith Sitwell remained neglected by critics. However, belonging to a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly esteemed by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the time who attended her improbable literary salon in London. Her witty remarks and anecdotes were legendary, and her works, such as English Eccentrics, confirmed her comedic genius, while later she established herself as the ultimate poet of the Blitz. This masterful biography, which has been meticulously researched and based on many hitherto unpublished letters, firmly places Edith Sitwell in the literary tradition to which she belongs.