Biography

Products of an aloof father and probably mentally deficient mother, the Sitwells went on to become the locus of a group of writers and artists. Contemporaneous with the more scholarly Bloomsbury Group, they were flashier and more eccentric, particularly Edith. Edith wrote poetry and her brothers wrote prose, Osbert producing some one hundred books. Sacheverall wrote some ground-breaking books on art, among them Southern Baroque Art and German Baroque Art.

They were the proprietors of Renishaw Hall. Only Sacheverell married, and it is his descendent, Alexandra, who manages Renishaw now.

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