![]() ![]() to support herself, her daughter, and her writing by working as a file clerk for the British embassy. Barker tried to visit her, but Smart's family ensured that he was turned back at the border for " moral turpitude." She moved to Washington D.C. In 1941, after becoming pregnant, Smart returned to Canada, settling in Pender Harbour, British Columbia, to have their first child, Georgina, while continuing to write the book. Barker documented the affair in his novel The Dead Seagull (1950). ![]() In the novel, the multiple pregnancies are reduced to one, other details of the affair are omitted, and the narrator's lover is barely described, as Smart focuses on her own experience and feelings, which was rare for the male-centric literature of that day. ![]() Their affair lasted 18 years Smart bore four of the 15 children he had by four women. Smart discovered Barker's poetry-specifically his poem Daedalus-in the late 1930s in Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. ![]() The work was inspired by Smart's passionate affair with the British poet George Barker (1913–1991). By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a 1945 novel in prose poetry by the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986). ![]()
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