Other names

Florence Margaret Smith

Place of birth

Hull, England

Place of death

Ashburton

About

Stevie Smith was a novelist and poet. She was well connected in the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s, where she was acquainted with M. J. Tambimuttu and Mulk Raj Anand, among others.

Montefiore, Janet, ‘Smith, Florence Margaret [Stevie] (1902–1971)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31695]

Image credit

Stevie Smith by Godfrey Argent, bromide print, 5 February 1970, NPG x165750

© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Citation: ‘Stevie Smith’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain-demo.rit.bris.ac.uk/people/stevie-smith/. Accessed: 5 July 2025.

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