Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971

LC control no.	n 50013400
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6037.M43
Personal name heading	Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Smith, S. (Stevie), 1902-1971 Smith, Florence Margaret, 1902-1971 Smith, Peggy, 1902-1971
Birth date	1902-09-20
Death date	1971-03-07
Place of birth	Hull (England)
Place of death	Ashburton (England)
Profession or occupation	Poets Authors
Found in	Her Novel on yellow paper ... 1936. Gowers, P. Stevie [SR] p1978: labels (S. Smith) container (Stevie Smith) 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)
Associated language	eng