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Edith
«The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.»
Author: Charlotte Curtis
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East Coast, Edith, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Near East, upper class, wasp, wasps, Wharton
«The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls.»
Author: Diana Vreeland
(Editor)
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Edith, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude, Gertrude Stein, Sitwell, stein
«How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitwell, shortly after the death of George VI)»
Author: Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
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bangs, Edith, Edith Sitwell, George VI, shortly, Sitwell
«To his pure and knightly soul not Edith alone, but every woman, sat high and aloof, enthroned and exalted, with a thousand mystic excellencies and virtues which raised her far above the rude world of man. There was joy in contact with them; and yet there was fear, fear lest his own unworthiness, his untrained tongue or rougher ways should in some way break rudely upon this delicate and tender thing.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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aloof, Edith, enthrone, enthroned, enthrones, excellencies, knightly, mystic, rougher, rudely, untrained, unworthiness