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Florence Margaret (Stevie) Smith was born on 20 September 1902 at 34 Delapole Avenue, Hull, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Ethel Rahel and Charles Ward Smith. Her father left home for the merchant navy when his shipping business collapsed in 1906, leaving young Smith, her elder sister and mother to live off the inheritance provided by her maternal grandfather.

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  • Hope, A. D. The Wandering Islands. Sydney: Edwards and Shaw, 1956. PR 6015.O55 W36 1956 Robarts Library
  • --.Poems. London: Hamilton, 1960. PR 6015.O55 A17 1960 Robarts Library
  • --. Selected Poems. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963. PR 6015.O55 A17 1963 Robarts Library
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  • Newbolt, Henry. Admirals All and Other Verses. London: Elkin Mathews, 1897. PR 5103.N4 A6 1981 Robarts Library
  • --. The Island Race. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. PR 5103.N4 I8 Robarts Library
  • --. The Sailing of the Long-Ships and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1902. PR 5103.N4 S3 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
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Books

  • A Strange Relief. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001. ISBN 0771045832

Anthologies

  • Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Mansfield Press, 2004.
  • Open Field: An Anthology of 40 Contemporary Canadian Poets. Persea Books, NY, 2005.
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  • Baker, William. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 184: Nineteenth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers. Ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. The Gale Group, 1997: 138-151.
  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.
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Robert Fuller Murray was born Dec. 26, 1863, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, of John and Emmeline Murray. In 1869 John took his son to Kelso, England, and then to York. He was educated at grammar schools in Ilminster and in Crewkerne. Murray then attended his beloved University of St. Andrews from 1881, succeeding more in English than in classical Greek.

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Born in 1809, Kasiprasad Ghose graduated from Hindu College, Calcutta, in 1828, and went on to edit a weekly newspaper, The Hindu Intelligence. His only volume of poems, The Shair and Other Poems, came out in 1839. He died in 1873.