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Emma Smith


Born
in Newquay, Cornwall, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1923

Died
April 24, 2018

Genre
Children's Books, Literature & Fiction


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EMMA SMITH was born in Cornwall in 1923 and was privately educated. In 1939 she took her first job in the Records Department of the War Office before volunteering for work on the canals; this gave her the material for Maidens' Trip (1948), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. She spent the winter of 1946-7 with a documentary film unit in India and then lived in Paris and wrote The Far Cry (1949), awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best novel of the year in English. In 1951 Emma Smith married and had two children. After her husband's death in 1957 she went to live in rural Wales; she then ...more

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“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
― Emma Smith
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“Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.”
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“Even if I were trying to catch a husband I would never fish in shallow waters.”
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