Edward Smedley

Standard Name: Smedley, Edward

Connections

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Textual Production Mary Boyle
Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton
Family and Intimate relationships Menella Bute Smedley
MBS 's father, the Rev. Edward Smedley , was a curate with an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge .
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
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To supplement the family income, he also worked as a teacher and Cambridge tutor. The...
Birth Menella Bute Smedley
The survivors were sister and brother older than MBS , and another sister who was younger. Standard sources give the year of her birth as 1819, but this is a mistake. Family sources (her father's...

Timeline

January 1849-March 1850: Frank Smedley's Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes...

Writing climate item

January 1849-March 1850

Frank Smedley 's Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil was serialised, in monthly parts, in Sharpe's London Magazine.

Texts

Smedley, Edward. Poems by the late Edward Smedley. Baldwin and Cradock, 1837.