On the Side of the Angels by Elizabeth Smart
The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, Smart came to London at the beginning of the 1930s and these journals cover a period of extensive travel and great personal change.Elizabeth Smart was born in 1913 in Ottawa, Canada. She attended private schools in Canada and studied at King's College, University of London, for a year. She came upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker while browsing in a London bookshop and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. They eventually spoke personally, and Elizabeth Smart flew Barker and his wife to the United States as a result of Barker's financial difficulties. Thus started one of history's most spectacular, passionate, and ultimately tragic love stories.
Their relationship gave the ardent inspiration for one of the most affecting and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written--By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. They never married, but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children, and their relationship offered the impassioned inspiration for one of the most poignant and immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written--By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. This amazing poem, first published in 1945, is now universally recognized as a classic work of poetic language, retaining all of its searing poignancy, beauty, and power of effect. Elizabeth Smart supported herself and her family after the war by working in journalism and advertising. She joined Queen magazine as literary and associate editor in 1963, but then withdrew out of the literary scene to live peacefully in a rural region of Suffolk.
In 1986, Elizabeth Smart passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780246136541 |
| ISBN 10 | 0246136545 |
| Title | On the Side of the Angels |
| Author | Elizabeth Smart |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1994-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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