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	Stevie Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stevie Smith (September 20, 1902–March 7, 1971) was a British poet and novelist.
		When Stevie was five she developed tuberculous peritonitis and was sent to a sanatorium near Broadstairs, Kent, where she remained off and on for several years.
		Stevie said that two of the male characters in her last book are different aspects of George Orwell, who was close to Smith (there were even rumours that they were lovers; he was married to his first wife at the time).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stevie_Smith (1324 words)

	Stevie Smith
		Born Florence Margaret Smith in Hull, Yorkshire[?], she moved when three years old with her mother and sister to Palmers Green, London.
		"Stevie Smith often uses the word 'peculiar' and it is the best word to describe her effects" - Hermione Lee[?].
		After Smith's death, her collected poems and three novels were republished and there was a successful play based on her life, Stevie, written by Hugh Whitemore[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stevie_Smith.html (386 words)

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		Stevie Smith is a poet who is frivolous yet serious, an expert tightrope walker whose poems are both devastating and bracing, childlike yet sophisticated, they celebrate life and death, love and anger, fables and truth.
		Stevie Smith Festival at Palmer’s Green - an account of a memorable poetry reading in the streets of Palmers Green to celebrate the centenary of Stevie Smith’s birth, with thoughts on the poems which were read.
		Stevie's Blue plaque: an account of the unveiling of a blue plaque at Stevie Smith's house in Palmers Green, London, on 16th September 2005 by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.
	www.strange-attractor.co.uk /stevie.smith.index.htm (663 words)

	Poetry: Stevie Smith
		Born Florence Margaret Smith in Hull, England, Stevie Smith was a secretary at Newnes Publishing Company in London from 1923 to 1953, and occasionally worked as a writer and broadcaster for the BBC.
		She is noted for her eccentricity and mischievous humor, often involving an acerbic twist on nursery rhymes, common songs, or hymns.
		Smith won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 1969, two years before her death.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/smith.htm (137 words)

	Stevie Smith Biography
		Stevie Smith was born in Hull in September 1902, the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith.
		Stevie said that two of the male characters in her last book are different aspects of George Orwell, who was close to Stevie; there were even rumours that they were lovers; he was married to his first wife at the time.
		Stevie has been claimed by lesbians as one of them but it's impossible to know whether this lesbian affair, if true, was an experiment or an intrinsic expression of her personality.
	www.strange-attractor.co.uk /stevibio.htm (1818 words)

	Stevie Smith: Girl, Interrupted Papers on Language and Literature - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Smith was a fragile child, born so ill that she had to be baptized at home rather than risk the voyage to the church where her older sister, Molly, had been christened (Spalding 3).
		Smith's parents, Ethel Spear Smith and Charles Ward Smith, may have been in love once, but those feelings apparently had faded by the time Stevie was born, perhaps due to Charles's incessant longing to be elsewhere.
		Smith's separation from her family was complex, functioning on emotional and physical planes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3708/is_200401/ai_n9401355 (972 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Stevie Smith
		Stevie Smith (real name Florence Margaret Smith) was born in Hull and studied at the North London Collegiate School for Girls.
		Stevie Smith lived at the north London suburb of Palmers Green with her aunt, an eccentric character whom she called "the Lion".
		Stevie, a play based on her life, was staged in 1977 with Glenda Jackson and was later made into a film.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/smiths2.shtml (303 words)

	Contributions to almighty truth: Stevie Smith's seditious romanticism Twentieth Century Literature - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stevie Smith first came into critical radar under the aegis of biographical study, which tends to submerge her unique work into the portrait of an English eccentric.
		Smith's poetry presents such a bewildering array of quotations, references, and suggestions of formal verse that a perceptive critic like Sheryl Stevenson can spend much of her time locating these sources in all their variety and not much time saying what happens to them.
		Smith did not attend university, did not have a private income, and worked most of her life as a secretary.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_49/ai_n6116683 (779 words)

	STEVIE SMITH
		Stevie, though good at wearing masks and playing games, resolutely refused to ‘play the game’ of being a serious poet, and she never became part of the establishment.
		Stevie always lived in a female household; she never married and the ‘unrespected papa’ who sent brief postcards, Off to Valparaiso, love Daddy, seldom appeared in Palmer’s Green, but she knew a lot about life and was sometimes critical of those who considered her 'innocent'.
		Stevie turned against Orwell eventually, she complained that he lied to her and later wrote, perhaps with the bitterness of an ex lover, that he had ‘a sick man’s lust for extreme cruelty’ and that he would be a 'disappointed ghost’ if 1984 came and nothing much had changed.
	www.strange-attractor.co.uk /stevie.htm (2069 words)

	RAACE Foundation - Stevie Smith Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stevie: Yeah, I was a little concerned about how things would go this year and I worried that maybe I would have a little trouble getting the hang of things again and maybe that was a problem in the very first race.
		Stevie: The first guy that I ever raced with was my dad and it has really been a lot of fun to get back out there and drive the cars that he has built for us this year.
		Stevie: I can't say that it has hurt our rhythm, no. It has given us a chance to make adjustments and try to make the most of all of our starts and that is probably a little bit of an advantage.
	www.raace.org /therace/team-interview-stevie.jsp (1746 words)

	Stevie Smith
		Stevie Smith was born Florence Margaret Smith in 1903 in Hull, Yorkshire.
		Stevie spent the rest of her life with her aunt, and worked as a private secretary.
		Stevie Smith was able to take serious issues and cloak them in humor, getting her point across in an inventive and clever way.
	asms.k12.ar.us /classes/humanities/britlit/97-98/smith/smith3.htm (588 words)

	the biography of Stevie Smith - life story
		While Smith's volatile attachment to the Church of England is evident in her poetry, death, her "gentle friend," is perhaps her most popular subject.
		Smith was officially recognized with the Chomondeley Award for Poetry in 1966 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1969.
		Smith died of a brain tumor in 1971.
	www.poemhunter.com /stevie-smith/biography/poet-6648 (439 words)

	Blue Plaque For Poet Stevie Smith : English Heritage : English Heritage
		Stevie was born in Hull in 1902, but moved to Palmers Green with her mother, Ethel, and Aunt Madge, when she was four.
		When Stevie was five, she developed turberculous peritonitis and was sent to a sanatorium where she remained on and off for several years.
		In 1968, Stevie’s beloved Aunt Madge died, aged 96, after a long period of disability during which Stevie cared for her much as her aunt had cared for her when she was young.
	www.english-heritage.org.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.5661 (538 words)

	Stevie Smith HammerDown!
		Smith passed Jeff Shepard for the lead on lap 28 of the 30-lap main event.
		After grabbing the lead with a three-wide maneuver in Turn 1 on Lap 19, it was Stevie Smith, the series’ 1990 top rookie, who held on for the 66th World of Outlaws A-feature victory in his career and his first Outlaws win since June 7, 2002, at Farmer City Raceway.
		Smith, who lives in New Oxford, won his first "A" Feature of the season Wednesday in the rain-delayed Commonwealth Clash at Lernerville Speedway, passing new single-lap record holder Joey Saldana early in the seventh lap on his way to claiming the $10,000 first prize.
	www.hammerdownusa.com /SmithStevie.htm (1033 words)

	Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith - Poetry Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stevie Smith (1902-1971) led an outwardly uneventful life behind the respectable curtains of suburbia whilst nurturing a highly individual imagination.
		Smith attended the North London Collegiate School for girls and after graduating worked as a secretary for the magazine publisher, George Newnes, and this remained her occupation for most of her life.
		Stevie Smith died of a brain tumour in 1971 only three years after her indomitable aunt.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7089 (559 words)

	s t e v i e s m i t h ...
		Stevie Smith is an inspiration to me, my own poetry and to the way in which I view death and leaving people behind me when I die.
		stevie smith is onteresting although i must say she can get a bit monotonous at times however i believe this is simply a n emphasis of what is truly important to her.
		Stevie Smith's poetry is worth listening as is her philosophical/theological argument.
	www.steviesmith.org (6777 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: Reading Guide: Stevie Smith
		As is often the case with “minor” poets, Smith’s biography tends to serve as shorthand for her work, which included hundreds of sly, playful short verses.
		During decades of train rides and vigils at her desk, Smith absorbed the rhythms of workday jargon, of newspaper ads, of water cooler chitchat, and set it loose on her own tasks.
		Smith’s lack of bombast and sonority, her simultaneous social unease and need to charm and hold court, her manipulation of childhood ditties—it all suggests a deep ambivalence about being “taken seriously” in a culture so often wrong about what’s really serious.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /features/feature.guidebook.html?id=177868 (1182 words)

	Essay: Underneath Stevie Smiths simple words and humour lie deep questions and fierce criticism - ...
		"Underneath Stevie Smith's simple words and humourlie deep questions and fierce criticism" A rather eccentric individual was Stevie Smith as her poems reflect.
		Smith possessed the talent of grasping serious issues of society and cloaking them in humor, while still displaying a philosophical insight into the human nature.
		Criticism, sarcasm and acrimony underlined all of her works and even reached beyond the confinements of her writing to become exploited continuously during conversations with her numerous friends at tea.
	www.coursework.info /A2_and_A-Level/Literature/Poetry/Underneath_Stevie_Smith_146_s_simple_words_and_humour_lie_L13014.html (308 words)

	Find a Poet: the all-poetry encyclopedia. Submit a site!: Poets : S : Stevie Smith
		Stevie Smith at Palmers Green - An account of a vist to Palmers Green for the 2002 Stevie Smith Centenary Festival and some thoughts on Stevie's life and work.
		Stevie Smith at St. James's, Piccadilly - Big London event (18th September 2002) starring John Horder (Stevie's friend), Michael Horovitz ("Children of Albion"), Frances Spalding (author of Stevie Smith), Rebecca Swift (of The Literary Consultency), Brian Pattern's poem "Blake's Purest Daughter" & Stevie's poems read in period costume by LAMDA actors.
		Stevie Smith Centenary Festival - Contains details of the Stevie Smith Centenary Festival, to be held in Stevie's hometown of Palmers Green (London) in September, 2002.
	www.everypoet.com /links/pages/Poets/S/Stevie_Smith (283 words)

	Backstretch Motorsports - Racing news for the thinking unimpaired. - Stevie Smith and the ‘Easter egg’ car ready for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Smith and the other NST drivers will be in Rock Springs, Wyo. this weekend for a Sept. 15-16 doubleheader at Sweetwater Speedway.
		Smith finished a strong third in the last NST race at Kings Speedway in Hanford, Calif. The race before, Smith briefly took the lead in Cottage Grove, Ore. before a mechanical problem knocked him out.
		Smith and some of the NST drivers raced in Rock Springs a few years ago, but it has been a while since they raced at the track which is 6,250 feet above sea level.
	www.backstretchmotorsports.com /bm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7404&Itemid=35 (668 words)

	Amazon.ca: Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics: Books: Laura Severin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Laura Severins engaging and extensive study challenges the notions of Smith as an apolitical and eccentric poet, instead portraying her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain.
		Focusing on the complete works of Stevie Smith, Severin suggests that Smiths boundary-crossing art forms, which transgress genres and even media, represent an attempt to undo the coherence of femininity as defined in the conservative period of World War II.
		She argues that within Smiths work lies an effort to resist the conservative domestic ideology of her time, and that the techniques Smith employed in her writings, drawings, and performance poetry, are utilized as forms of resistance.Jack V. Barbera, University of Mississippi
	www.amazon.ca /Stevie-Smiths-Resistant-Antics-Severin/dp/0299152944 (393 words)

	Smith Stevie - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Smith, Stevie (1902-1971), pseudonym of Florence Margaret Smith, British poet and novelist.
		Smith, Delia (1941-), English cookery writer and broadcaster.
		Smith was born in Woking, Surrey, and upon leaving school worked as a hairdresser...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Smith_Stevie.html (110 words)

	Stevie Smith Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stevie Smith's work, like her life, does not readily yield the interesting patterns of change and development favored by literary biographers.
		Stevie Smith(September 20 1902 – March 7 1971) was a British poet and novelist.
		Life Born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith, she was christened Florence Margaret, but always called Peggy...
	www.bookrags.com /Stevie_Smith (189 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Stevie Smith
		Stevie Smith has been increasingly recognised as one of the most important female British poets of the twentieth-century, and the most original voice to emerge from the 1930s.
		It was this apparently quiet and unremarkable suburb that was to inspire such a large amount of Stevie’s work, and Stevie would remain living in the same house in Palmers’ Green from 1906 until her death in 1971.
		Throughout Stevie’s childhood she suffered from poor health, and spent several years in a children’s sanatorium as a young girl after being diagnosed with tuberculosis.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4124 (699 words)

	Stevie Smith - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Stevie Smith - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Smith, Stevie, pseudonym of Florence Margaret Smith (1902-1971), British writer who is best remembered for her short, simple, yet pointed poetry....
		Stevie, motion-picture dramatization of the life of poet Stevie Smith, based on the play by Hugh Whitemore and the works of Smith.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Stevie_Smith.html (93 words)

	Powell's Books - Pedaling to Hawaii: A Human-Powered Odyssey by Stevie Smith
		Three years later, Stevie and his friend Jason began an incredible journey, to be the first people to circumnavigate the globe under human power alone.
		Smith is an accomplished writer, contrasting evocative descriptions of dolphins, seascapes and beckoning vistas with stories of days of fatigue, boredom and his own wild fantasies.
		Englishman Stevie Smith, now a Buddhist priest and ferryman, is a former environmental consultant who conceived of the expedition to circumnavigate the globe under human power (now called Expedition 360) in 1991 while staring from his office window on a gray Monday morning in Paris.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0881507091 (705 words)

	[minstrels] The Jungle Husband -- Stevie Smith
		Stevie Smith's poetry is beguilingly simple, and incredibly impossible to imitate.
		[Links] There's a nice biography of Stevie Smith (and an essay wondering why her poetry isn't more widely read) at http://community.wow.net/folio/Stevie_Smith.html 'hittapotamus' is straight out of Ogden Nash (though if I remember aright, Smith's poem predates Nash by a goodly bit).
		From: Suresh Ramasubramanian On 8 May 2000, Abraham Thomas saw fit to inform me that: > Stevie Smith's poetry is beguilingly simple, and incredibly impossible > to imitate.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/421.html (398 words)

	Author Information: Stevie Smith :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stevie Smith was born Florence Margaret Smith in Hull, England.
		She began publishing poems in the 1930s, often with her own illustrations, and went on to write three novels and eight volumes of poetry.
		Her life was the subject of Hugh Whitemore's play Stevie and the subsequent 1978 film.
	www.iblist.com /author7975.htm (103 words)

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