 Other writers have detected personal references in the "Façade" poems.Christopher Palmer lists many references to Sitwell's unhappy childhood, from the kind Mariner Man (her father's valet who entertained her with seafaring stories) to the implacable Mrs Behemoth (her mother).The "Façade" poems published by Sitwell in her 1950 collection, "Façade and other Poems, 1920–1935" are