Edith Joy Scovell Collection

Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 4

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf150

Staff Only

Typescript and autograph note in unidentified hand on reading selections in The River Steamer by Scovell. 1 page

Dates

Creation: 1963 June 6

Creator

Scovell, E. J., 1907-1999 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Edith Joy Scovell (1907 – 1999) was an English poet. She was born in Sheffield, and studied in Westmorland and at Somerville College, Oxford. She married the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton in 1937. She also translated work of Giovanni Pascoli. She published three volumes of poetry: Shadows of Chrysanthemums (1944), The Midsummer Meadow (1946), and The River Steamer (1956). Later her Selected Poems and Collected Poems were published by Carcanet Press. Her poem 'Child Waking' was included in the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Harmondsworth, UK, 1950 and later editions).