In 1945, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was published. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945) For the next two decades she wrote advertising copy, worked for Queen as literary editor and for She then movedīack to England, where she worked to support herself and her family. Though she never married him (he was married and Catholic), she did have four of Barker’s children.ĭuring the Second World War, Smart worked briefly at the British Embassy in Washington until it was obvious that she was pregnant with her second child. Through her contact with Lawrence Durrell, she met Barker. During this time, she became acquainted with the poems of George Barker and sight unseen decided she would marry him. She worked for the Ottawa Journal writing society news.įollowing this brief stint, Smart travelled extensively through the 1930s, living a peripatetic and at times bohemian life. Soon realizing that she would never be satisfied by the piano alone, and wanting to write seriously, she gave up the piano and returned to Canada. Although Smart was never without a notebook and thought of being a writer at a young age, piano study She was educated at Hatfield Hall, a private school in Cobourg, Elizabeth Smart was born into a prominent Ottawa family.
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