
Stevie Smith
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Novelist and poet
Other names
Florence Margaret Smith
Place of birth
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/