Facts:   - language: english    - death date: 08 april 1954      - birth date: 01 february 1882    - name: cicely fox smith    - nationality: british    - death place: bow , devon , united kingdom    - birth place: lymm , cheshire , united kingdom    - occupation: poet , writer   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of c. fox smith .
cicely fox smith -lrb- 1 february 1882 -- 8 april 1954 -rrb- was an english poet and writer .born in lymm , cheshire and educated at manchester high school for girls , she briefly lived in canada , before returning to the united kingdom shortly before the outbreak of world war i .she settled in hampshire and began writing poetry , often with a nautical theme .smith wrote over 600 poems in her life , for a wide range of publications .in later life , she expanded her writing to a number of subjects , fiction and non-fiction .for her services to literature , the british government awarded her a small pension .