Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971
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Name (Hebrew)
סמית, סטיבי, 1902-1971
Name (Latin)
Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971
Other forms of name
Smith, Peggy, 1902-1971
Smith, Florence Margaret, 1902-1971
Smith, S. (Stevie), 1902-1971
Date of birth
1902-09-20
Date of death
1971-03-07
Occupation
Authors
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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MARC
Sources of Information
- All the poems of Stevie Smith, 2016:title page (Stevie Smith) page 3 of jacket (Stevie Smith (1902-1971) was the author of three novels and nine books of poetry and lived almost her whole life in northern London. She received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1966 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1969)
- Wikipedia, January 3, 2017(Stevie Smith; Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902-7 March 1971) was an English poet and novelist; she was born in Kingston upon Hull; she was called Peggy within her family, but acquired the name Stevie as a young woman when she was riding in the park with a friend who said that she reminded him of the jockey Steve Donoghue; she was educated at Palmers Green High School and North London Collegiate School for Girls; she worked as private secretary to Sir Neville Pearson with Sir George Newnes at Newnes Publishing Company in London from 1923 to 1953; after she retired from Sir Neville Pearson's service following a nervous breakdown she gave poetry readings and broadcasts on the BBC that gained her new friends and readers among a younger generation; she corresponded and socialized widely with other writers and creative artists, including Elisabeth Lutyens, Sally Chilver, Inez Holden, Naomi Mitchison, Isobel English and Anna Kallin; she died of a brain tumor in Ashburton, Devon, England)
- Her Novel on yellow paper ... 1936.
- Gowers, P. Stevie [SR] p1978:labels (S. Smith) container (Stevie Smith)