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Sheila Kaye-Smith

(1887-1956), Writer

Sitter in 12 portraits
Kaye-Smith's most popular novels Green Apple Harvest (1920) and Joanna Godden (1921) portray the farming communities, landscapes and dialect of her native county, Sussex - later parodied by Stella Gibbons in the comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932). Kaye-Smith combined writing thirty-one novels with teaching the running of a farm with her husband. Her most enduring works are two studies of Jane Austen written in collaboration with the author G.B. Stern.

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Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x90081

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19511

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19512

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19513

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19514

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19515

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19516

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19517

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19518

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x19519

Sheila Kaye-Smith

after Unknown artist
colour offset lithographic cigarette card, 1937
NPG D42404

Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative
NPG x99984

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Theodore Penrose Fry (husband)

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Sussex

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