{"product_id":"the-sitwells-john-pearson","title":"The Sitwells:  John Pearson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew families have  cultivated such eccentricity, created such controversy and achieved such notoriety as the Sitwells - Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. In this fascinating family biography, John Pearson tell this story of an unholy trinity. As poets, memoirists, critic and patrons, the aristocratic Sitwells were a formidable and always entertaining part of life throughout the 20th century. They conceived themselves as arbiters of taste, commandant of the avant-garde in its perpetual battle with the Philistines and the centre of English cultural life. To a remarkable extent they succeeded in their aim - as early as 1923 a newspaperman would write: \u003cem\u003eThey are all poets. But they are more than that - they are a \u003cstrong\u003ecult. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eD.H. Lawrence, Cecil Beaton, Diaghilev, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Noel Coward - these and many more appeared in their lives as allies, enemies and proteges.  This is a delightful recounting of the Sitwells' stunts, eccentricities, feud, ecapades and a social history of an era seen through its most remarkable exponents. Photographic illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1st U.S. edition by Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich 1978; hardback; dust jacket not price-clipped; small tear in dust jacket neatly repaired; a little foxing to block; tightly bound and clean within\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43852945588302,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au\/products\/the-sitwells-john-pearson","provider":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}