Edith Lyttelton

Who was Edith Lyttelton?

Dame Edith Lyttelton, GBE, born Edith Sophy Balfour, was a British novelist, World War I-era activist and spiritualist.

The daughter of Archibald Balfour, a London businessman and merchant in Russia, Edith Balfour was educated privately and moved in the aristocratic circle of friends known as the "Souls", which included A. J. Balfour, George Curzon, Margot Tennant, and Alfred Lyttelton, whom she married at Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in April 1892 after the death of his first wife. Together they had two surviving children, including Oliver Lyttelton.