Nesw at Eleven: Richard Greene, [Edith] Sitwell's latest biographer,

makes relatively little of her striking appearance. He wants us to take her seriously as a poet, and so provides no hint of a shopping trip, no whiff of the contents of her dressing table. This is a pity, for her costumes speak volumes about life as a 20th-century female poet: the sheer courage involved. Contemporary critics accused her of overambition; might she not, they wondered, be better off limiting herself to a smaller canvas? Sitwell, though, was convinced that modesty was death for the woman poet.

from The Guardian: Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene--review

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