News at Eleven: [Edith Sitwell's] mother did not want her

and made the fact quite clear; Edith, with her wild dreams and flashes of precociousness, was often being laughed at and sent to her room. But she had serious plans for her future. She watched and raged and waited; she read Pope under the bedcovers and memorised it all. She wanted to be a poet and she wanted to be taken seriously. Her new biographer, Richard Greene, takes her very seriously indeed and argues that she grew up to be the genius she intended.

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

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