The Faber Book Of Children's Verse by Janet Adam Smith

Shortly after, the family moved to a house in the Notting Hill area of London, which remained her home until her death in 1999. Michael Roberts died on 13 December 1948. 1940 and John Roberts, writer on energy issues and Middle East politics, b. 1939 Adam Roberts, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, b. 1937 Henrietta Dombey, Professor of Literacy in Primary Education at the University of Brighton, b. They had four children: Andrew Roberts, Professor of the History of Africa at the University of London, b. In 1945 the family moved to London, where Michael Roberts had become Principal of the College of St Mark and St John, in Chelsea (which later moved to Plymouth and became the University of St Mark & St John). They lived in Newcastle upon Tyne (where he taught at the Royal Grammar School), then from 1939 in Penrith (where the school was evacuated during the war). Eliot's phrase, 'expositor and interpreter of the poetry of his generation'. Roberts's anthologies of contemporary verse had already established him as, in T.S. In 1935 she married Michael Roberts, who was a poet, critic, editor, mathematician, and, like her, a passionate mountaineer. Memorial to Janet Adam Smith, Currie Churchyard In 1919, Janet went to Cheltenham Ladies' College, and in 1923 went on to Somerville College, Oxford, where she read English, graduating in 1926. Her mother was Lilian Adam Smith, daughter of Sir George Buchanan, FRS, in whose honour the Royal Society's Buchanan Medal was created. Her father, Sir George Adam Smith FBA (1856–1942), was a Biblical scholar, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, at the Free Church College in Glasgow, and then, from 1909 to 1935, Principal of Aberdeen University.

She was born into the old Scots intellectual elite. And she shone with an intensity that made others glow in response'. Leonard Miall wrote: 'Biographer, mountaineer, critic, literary editor, textual scholar, comic versifier, visiting professor, hostess, anthologist, traveller – there seemed to be nothing at which Janet Adam Smith did not shine. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century. Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature.

The Faber Book Of Children's Verse by Janet Adam Smith