When Elizabeth Smart's cottage in Flixton was sold, an unsuspected mass of letters, diaries, scrapbooks and MSS was discovered. This book has been compiled by some of Elizabeth's friends in an effort to imply the autobiography that she did not live to write.
Smart sold her first poem -- for a dollar -- at the age of 10. The following year, confined by illness to bed for 6 m
When Elizabeth Smart's cottage in Flixton was sold, an unsuspected mass of letters, diaries, scrapbooks and MSS was discovered. This book has been compiled by some of Elizabeth's friends in an effort to imply the autobiography that she did not live to write.
Smart sold her first poem -- for a dollar -- at the age of 10. The following year, confined by illness to bed for 6 months, she bagan what was to be a lifelong habit of "squeezing bits of the day into notebooks." These notebooks provided the raw material from which she worked -- ideas, thoughts, feelings, observations, story ideas and digressions.
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book,
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography,
By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life
, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film,
Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
, produced by Maya Gallus.