Stevie Smith, Over the Frontier

William May (University of Southern California)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1938

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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This novel was written as the sequel to Stevie Smith's highly successful debut

Novel on Yellow Paper

(1936), which had been followed with the first volume of her poetry a year later,

A Good Time Was Had by All

(1937). In fact,

Over the Frontier

was completed towards the end of 1936, as its narrator Pompey Casmilus records:

I am involved in the proof corrections of my first novel, even while I write these words, so well on now into the second. Perhaps it is a little debilitating to being a second whilst the first is on hand?

Like its predecessor, Over the Frontier is a partly

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Citation: May, William. "Over the Frontier". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 September 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9925, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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