News about Edith Sitwell

CRAIG BROWN: Creative people tend to be touchy. When they were poked, they may have a punch or two. When the legendary actress Mrs Patrick Campbell called by at the age of four, the eccentric poet Edith Sitwell was seated in her pram. Mrs Campbell had the temerity to call the baby 'baby,' as she entered the pram lovingly - whereupon Edith hit her. Theatre critics have long been known for their cruelness, but audiences can be infinitely crueler as they shuffle out of the theater.

Barrie Gower, who created some of TV's most terrifying creatures, Vecna for Stranger Things and Game Of Thrones, was involved in prosthetics on a smaller scale for Matilda The Musical. Emma Thompson was turned into a stern Miss Trunchbull by Gower. He told a Bafta panel that he 'only' provided the film's jaw, chin, nose, and earlobe pieces, which is up for nomination for the Outstanding British Film award. 'She was totally open to the process,' he said, adding that the poet Edith Sitwell was a source for her beauty.'