"Suburbs are not so bad I think": Stevie Smith's Problem of Place in 1930s and '40s London Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies | October 1, 2003| | Copyright Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies Fall 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

"London and its outskirts became Greater London in the inter-war period" (Bowdler 103). With this simple declaration, geographer Roger Bowdler identifies the physical transformation of English landscape that underlies my analysis of Stevie Smith's literary fantasies about the suburbs. Described at the time as the "outskirts" and "fringes" of the capital, London's suburbs achieved their regional identity as intermediate or in-between spaces-between town and country, commerce and agriculture, bricks and birds, crowds and calm. Semi-detached houses, arterial roads, new underground stations, ...

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