The Woman Who Dressed Like a Cathedral
She lay in a coffin each morning to focus her mind. She dressed in brocade and gold turbans because ordinary clothes, she felt, would make people doubt the existence of the Almighty. An old woman once waited outside her debut performance with an umbrella, intending to beat her. Her jewelry now has its own cases at the V&A. Dame Edith Sitwell: the woman who dressed like a cathedral and quietly saved a dead soldier's poetry from oblivion.
