Emma Smith was born Elspeth Hallsmith in 1923 in Newquay, Cornwall, where until the age of twelve, she lived with her mother and father, an elder brother and sister, and a younger brother. Her first book, Maidens” Trip, was published in 1948 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Her second, The Far Cry, was published the following year and was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
In 1951 Emma Smith married Richard Stewart-Jones. After her husband”s death in 1957 she went to live with her two young children in Wales, where she proceeded to write and have published four successful children”s books, one of which, No Way of Telling, was runner-up for the Carnegie Gold Medal. She also published a number of short stories and, in 1978, her novel The Opportunity of a Lifetime. In 2008 The Great Western Beach, her memoir of her Cornish childhood, was published to widespread critical acclaim.
Since 1980 Emma Smith has lived in the London district of Putney.
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Dr. Emma Smith: Macbeth: Language and Writing
Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to …
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Smith Emma Smith: Women on the Early Modern Stage
This New Mermaids Anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of M …
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Smith Emma Smith: Women on the Early Modern Stage
This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of M …
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Emma Smith: Maidens’ Trip
______________’Wonderfully written, humorous and humane, and beautifully evocative of the time’ – Independent Summer Reads’Smith’s writing exudes wisdom and humour, and her descriptions … are vivid …
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Emma Smith: As Green as Grass
______________ ”A delight” – Spectator ”An entrancing memoir” – Jane Shilling, New Statesman ”A wonderful journey beautifully told, and like all great memoirs, remains with the reader like the …
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Dr. Emma Smith: Macbeth: Language and Writing
Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to …
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Dr Emma Smith: Analysing Underachievement in Schools
Underachievement in school is one of the most widely used terms in education today. As a discourse it has been responsible for influencing government policy, staffroom discussions, as well as the pa …
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See Beng Huat See & Smith Emma Smith: Teacher Supply
Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new re …
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Smith Emma Smith: Great Western Beach
______________’Emma Smith has written a book that should – and I hope does – endure as a classic among memoirs of childhood. I savoured every page’ – Miranda Seymour, Evening Standard’A wonderful boo …
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