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Novel On Yellow Paper

Stevie Smith

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 28, 1980
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 208
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780860681465
  • Price : INR 599
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Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith (1902-71) was born Florence Margaret in 1902. She lived in Palmers Green London and for much of her life worked until retirement as a secretary for the magazine publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. When she tried to publish a volume of poems she was told to 'go away and write a novel'. Novel on Yellow Paper was the result and it turned her into an instant celebrity. Two further novels (The Holiday and Over the Frontier) followed but it is her poetry that has secured her legacy. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award and in 1969 was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

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