E. J. Scovell

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Edith Joy Scovell (1907 – 1999) was a British 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. Her Selected Poems and Collected Poems have been published by Carcanet Press.

[edit] Works

• Shadows of Chysanthemums (1944)
• The Midsummer Meadow (1946)
• The River Steamer (1956)