"English Eccentrics" 1994 SITWELL, Edith Gardening It was serialised as The

It was serialised as The Intrusions of Jimmy in the British weekly magazine Tit-Bits between 11 June and 10 September before being published as A Gentleman of Leisure by Alston Rivers Ltd

the man who draws pictures like those assembled here is obliged to create a nightmare landscape of his own and to people it with men

The book also delves into the social and cultural aspects of foxhunting

and later as a retired adult in “the Country Club Years”

and what was known as "Desert Modernism

"English Eccentrics" 1994 SITWELL, Edith Gardening It was serialised as TheSITWELL, Edith [268] pp. The Folio Society1994 Illustrations by Roland Pym9" x 6" Fine Edith Sitwell, herself an English eccentric, brings together an appreciative selection of unusual characters from England's history. The book inspired an opera of the same name, premiered in 1964 and with music by Malcolm Williamson and a libretto by Geoffrey Dunn.