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also known as Florence Margaret Smith

novelists poet

She was described by her friends as being naive and selfish in some ways and formidably intelligent in others, having been raised by her aunt as both a spoiled child and a resolutely autonomous woman. Her last collection, Scorpion and other Poems was published posthumously in 1972, and the Collected Poems followed in 1975.

Works

  • novel

    • Novel on Yellow Paper (Cape, 1936)

    • Over the Frontier (Cape 1938)

    • The Holiday (Chapman and Hall, 1949)

  • poetry

    • This Englishwoman (1937)

All works