A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency
rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find.
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...
Occupation
Elizabeth Jane Howard
In winter 1953 EJH
, aged about thirty, became an editor at Chatto and Windus
, which was then run by Norah Smallwood
and Ian Parsons
. She read submitted manuscripts, wrote reports on them...