Naomi Royde-Smith

30 April 1875 - 28 July 1964

NRS 'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies, reviews and criticism, four plays, and books about railways and other forms of transport.

BirthName: Naomi Gwladys Holroyd Smith
Self-constructed: Naomi Royde-Smith
When the family moved to London, she and her siblings changed their name from Smith to Royde-Smith. This name appears both with and without a hyphen.
Married: Milton
Indexed: N. G. Royde-Smith; Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith

Milestones

30 April 1875

NRS was born at Craven Edge, Halifax, Yorkshire, the eldest in a family of eight (all but two of them girls).

Some earlier sources give her birthplace as Llanrwst in Wales, where her father later had an estate.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 September 1960

In her final novel, Love and a Birdcage, NRS returned to the Cinderella plot.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.

3053 (2 September 1960): 557

28 July 1964

NRS died of kidney failure in London, approaching ninety.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

30 April 1875

NRS was born at Craven Edge, Halifax, Yorkshire, the eldest in a family of eight (all but two of them girls).

Some earlier sources give her birthplace as Llanrwst in Wales, where her father later had an estate.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.