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Glen Sitwell, a building manager who watched all of this play out from his corner office, said the aggressive posture of the agents took him aback.

Mr. Ziegler’s 1999 biography “Osbert Sitwell” revisited the life of a minor British poet who cast a wider celebrity as a magnet for artists and iconoclasts.

In Thompson’s first conversations about the role with Warchus, the actor asked about Trunchbull’s childhood and likened it to that of British poet Edith Sitwell, who suffered physical abuse at a young age.

Bogarde wants John Singer Sargent's "haunting" portrait of the Sitwell family, pointing out that he could turn it into a tent or a raft if he needed to.

The auction of the hall's contents, called Weston Hall and the Sitwells: A Family Legacy, has been taking place over two days at Donnington Priory in Berkshire.