(Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Eastern Connecticut State University), in which she reclaims Cicely Fox Smith in the continuum of important women poets of the early 20 century. Later life Other books by Smith included three romantic novels, numerous short stories and articles, as well as several books describing "sailortown." She also published a book of traditional sea shanties that she had collected, and edited a collection of sea poems and stories primarily by other authors. In 1937 Smith finally realised a childhood dream by sailing around the coast of Africa, as a guest of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd., stopping in the harbors along the way. She wrote of her experiences in All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa. In the 1940s she began writing children's sea stories with her sister Margaret (Madge) Scott Smith, other travel books, history books, a book about ship models, at least one biography titled Grace Darling, and contributed to and edited many collections. The fine art work of her older brother Philip Wilson Smith, known at the time for his etchings of Elizabethan architecture and oil paintings, illustrates many of her poetry and prose books. Her literary outpourings were such as to persuade the Government to award her, at the age of 67, a modest pension for "her services to literature." Smith kept writing to the end of her life about many things and many places but always with the accuracy and knowledge of an expert. She even chose her own gravestone epitaph, an extract from one of Walter Raleigh's poems: Cicely Fox Smith died on 8 April 1954, in the town of Bow, Devon, where she'd been living with her sister Madge. Legacy Over 70 of Smith's poems have been adapted for singing and have been recorded, primarily in the nautical folk song tradition. Publications Books by C. Fox Smith include: A Book of Famous Ships (Houghton Mifflin, New York © 1924) A Book of Shanties (traditional sea songs) (Methuen & Co., London © 1927) A Sea Chest: an Anthology of Ships and Sailormen (Methuen & Co., London © 1927) Adventures and Perils of the Sea (1936) All the Way Round: Sea Road to Africa (1938) Anchor Lane (1933) Ancient Mariners: Some Salt Water Yesterdays (1928) Country Days & Country Ways: Trudging Afoot in England (1947) Fighting Men (Methuen 1916) Full Sail (1926) Here and there in England with the