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BIO
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Florence
Margaret Smith
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British
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Father:
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Mother:
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Raised
by:
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Novel
on Yellow Paper (1936)
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A Good
Time Was Had by All (1937) poetry
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worked as
a secretary instead of college
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lived
with her aunt
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GENRES:
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POETRY
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used nursery rhymes, popular songs, hymns
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used clever twists & witty
verbal maneuvers
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underlying preoccupation with
death
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& fascination with
grotesque & macabre
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often accompanied by her odd drawings/sketches
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*hidden social criticism amid
humor
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"Frog Prince" (1937), "Not Waving but Drowning"
(1957)
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INFLUENCES:
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