Façade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Façade – An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions.
Edith Sitwell in 1912, by Roger Fry
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Portrait of Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915
Portrait of Edith Sitwell, by Roger Fry, 1918
Greenhill, Hampstead. Sitwell lived here at flat 42 1961–64
Blue plaque, Greenhill flats, Hampstead