| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...' | Edith Sitwell | Edith Sitwell | poems | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was th... | Edith Sitwell | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When it was discovered that she liked Swinburne's poetry, Sir George demanded that she forego such sensual verse. If ... | Edith Sitwell | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a ... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Robert Browning | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Stephane Mallarme | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Paul Verlaine | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Arthur Rimbaud | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Charles Baudelaire | Les fleurs du mal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday af... | Edith Sitwell | Felicia Hemans | 'Casabianca' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the stran... | Edith Sitwell | August Strindberg | The Inferno | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I t... | Edith Sitwell | Sydney Schiff | Prince Hempseed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Miss Stein,
Thank you so much for your letter and the wonderful portrait, which followed me through Spain, and... | Edith Sitwell | Gertrude Stein | 'Sitwell, Edith Sitwell': a word portrait | Manuscript: Letter, A 'word portrait' so possibly contained in a letter. |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Life of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than ... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your ... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | The Eternal Moment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it... | Edith Sitwell | John Collier | His Monkey wife; or, Married to a Chimp | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there e... | Edith Sitwell | John Aubrey | The Scandals and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, alth... | Edith Sitwell | John Hayward | Nineteenth Century Poetry - An Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense... | Edith Sitwell | Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler) | The Young and the Evil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offe... | Edith Sitwell | Ronald Bottrall | Festival of Fire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, f... | Edith Sitwell | Walter Greenwood | Love on the Dole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, f... | Edith Sitwell | Walter Greenwood | His Worship the Mayor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven kno... | Edith Sitwell | Friedrich Engels | Conditions of the Working Classess in England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | Alexandria: A History and Guide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That wonderful edition of Pope has appeared: and I can never thank you enough. You cannot know what a delight it is t... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and s... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | Sacred and Profane Love | Print: Book |