English Eccentrics

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Edith Sitwell. English Eccentrics

English Eccentrics

Table of Contents

1 ‘Goose-Weather’

2. Ancients and Ornamental Hermits

3. Quacks and Alchemists

4. Some Sportsmen

5. Some Amateurs of Fashion

6. An Observer of Human Nature

7. Portrait of a Learned Lady

8. Some Men of Learning

9. Some Travellers

10. Charles Waterton: The South American Wanderer

‘Charles Waterton.’

11. The God of this World

12. Of the Benefits of Posthumous Fame

Philip Neve

P.N.” ’

13. More Pliant Beings

14. Of Revelations, Courteous and Otherwise, and of Admirable Removals

E. R. Dowager’

15. Weathercock Wits

16. Serious Circles

17. Marine Adventurers (Piracy and Piety)

Index

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Edith Sitwell

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Question: “What is the feeling you have of different fluids?”

Answer: “Similar to my feeling of silks.”

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