Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Unconventional at best as a person her poems reflect this with her exotic cos.
In 1913 Edith began to publish her poetry, her first was in the Daily Mirror
The Drowned Suns.
Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a \'cure\' which involved locking her into an iron frame.
Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire