Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: E l i z a b e t h ( b e t t y ) s m a r t was the second of three daughters and one son born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Ottawa, Canada, in 1913.Mum adored her father, Russel Sutherland Smart, a benevolent and bespectacled little man with burnished cheeks and a pouterpigeon chest.Despite his bookish and fusty background of law, regulations and records, he provided her and her siblings with a busy social life in a loving home that was frequented by diplomats, broadcasters, politicians and aspiring writers.He was a great reader and follower of the theater and perhaps sowed the seeds of a love of the English language in Mum.Louise-or Louie, her mother-was the firm matriarch in this respectable household, insisting on decorum and a well-bred demeanor from her children, particularly her daughters.The secure family base led to a defiant and iconoclastic trait in them, none more so than in Mum.This defiance drove her to stubborn childhood insubordination, and early on she established a love/hate relationship with her mother.She would write later, recalling her earliest memories:
Author: Christopher Barker
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4391687806
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