Edith Joy Scovell was an English poet. She was born in Sheffield

Sheffield

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, and studied in Westmorland

Westmorland

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 and at Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College, Oxford

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. She married the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton

Charles Sutherland Elton

Charles Sutherland Elton FRS was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. His name is associated with the establishment of modern population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms.-Personal life:...

 in 1937. She also translated work of Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar.- Biography :Giovanni Pascoli was born at San Mauro di Romagna , into a well-to-do family. He was the fourth of ten children of Ruggero Pascoli and Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli...

. She published three volumes of poetry: Shadows of Chrysanthemums (1944), The Midsummer Meadow (1946), and The River Steamer (1956). Later her Selected Poems and Collected Poems were published by Carcanet Press. Her poem 'Child Waking' was included in the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Harmondsworth, UK, 1950 and later editions).

Works

• Shadows of Chysanthemums (1944)
• The Midsummer Meadow (1946)
• The River Steamer (1956)