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Stevie Smith: She likened her fiction to the sea:

on the surface sunny, but seven miles down ‘black and cold’.

Photograph:

Evening Standard/Getty Images

Stevie Smith, steel soul of the suburbs

Rachel Cooke reviews the life and career

of the singular English poet and novelist,

whose first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, is reissued

Monday 6 April 2015 11.00 BST

Florence Margaret Smith,

known as Stevie Smith 1902-1971

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