英语专业毕业论文_Reading Stevie’s Life in Her Work.docVIP

Reading Stevie’s Life in Her Work Writer: Supervisor: Abstract: For most Chinese readers, the name Stevie Smith must be very unfamiliar with and they will ask “who is Stevie Smith? Is she a myth?” In this thesis, the author will first answer these questions to readers. Stevie Smith was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England in September 1902. She was christened Florence Margaret, but always called Peggy by the family. She acquired the name Stevie when she was riding in the park accidentally (Sternlicht, 1991: P4) Retaining her nickname Stevie throughout her adulthood, she shifted her poems from m