About Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Stevie, a play by Hugh Whitemore based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson. Smith wrote three novels, the first of which, Novel on Yellow Paper, was published in 1936. Later, when her mother became ill, her aunt Madge Spear, whom Smith called "The Lion Aunt", came to live with them, raised Smith and her elder sister Molly, and became the most important person in Smith's life. Sylvia Plath became a fan of her poems and sent Smith a letter in 1962, describing herself as "a desperate Smith-addict".
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