Novel On Yellow Paper Av Stevie Smith

<p>INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE<br><br><b>''Virginia Woolf''s roving consciousness lies behind the prose in <i>Novel on Yellow Paper</i>, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit'' - Frances Spalding, <i>Independent</i></b><br><br>Stevie''s alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.</p>