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Emma Smith (born 1923) is an English novelist. ==Early life and fame== Emma Smith was born as Elspeth Hallsmith〔(Interview with the author about her family life ), ''The Guardian'', May 2008.〕 in Cornwall in 1923. She was educated privately up to the age of 16, when she decided to take up a job at the War Office. During the Second World War, she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatwoman. Later on, her experiences as a trainee boatwoman on the Grand Union Canal would become the basis for her debut novel, ''Maidens' Trip''. In September 1946, Smith, still only 23, went off to India with a team of documentary filmmakers that included the poet Laurie Lee, who was serving as scriptwriter on the team. ''Cider with Rosie'', Lee's classic account of growing up in rural Gloucestershire, was in its embryonic stages during this trip; Emma Smith was one of those who would later encourage Lee to complete the book, which went on to become one of the most beloved of books about childhood in English literature. After nine months in India, Smith returned to England in 1947 and set down to write her first book. ''Maidens' Trip'' (1948) proved to be both a critical and a commercial success and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. With the proceeds from the book, Smith moved to Paris where she took a room in the Hotel de Tournon and, drawing on her memories of India, typed up her second novel. ''The Far Cry'' was published in 1949 to even greater acclaim and was republished in 2002 by Persephone Books. The tale of a young English girl and her cantankerous father travelling together through India, it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1949, and later reissued in a Penguin edition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Smith (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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