Frank Smedley

Standard Name: Smedley, Frank

Used Form: Francis Edward Smedley

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Menella Bute Smedley	Later in the same year as her first publication, under the same initials, MBS contributed A Very Woman to the collaborative collection Seven Tales by Seven Authors, edited by her cousin Frank Smedley ...
Family and Intimate relationships	Menella Bute Smedley	MBS 's cousin the disabled novelist and editor Frank Smedley assisted her in her career, and was in turn helped by her encouragement and advice. The Dictionary of Literary Biography mistakenly calls him her brother. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 586 Yates, Edmund, and Frank Smedley. “Memorial Preface”. Gathered Leaves: Being a Collection of the Poetical Writings of the Late Frank E. Smedley, Virtue Brothers, 1865, p. xvi - xxiv. xviii Bellas, Tom. Emails to Orlando about Menella Bute Smedley. 8 Sept. 2009.
Intertextuality and Influence	Menella Bute Smedley	MBS 's cousin Frank Smedley , a successful novelist and editor who was connected with Sharpe's Magazine, seems to have assisted her materially in her early career.
Occupation	Menella Bute Smedley	For many years she was the housekeeper and amanuensis of her cousin Frank Smedley , who died in 1864. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 586 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Frank Smedley He dedicated to her and M. U. S. (another cousin, Millicent Ursula Smedley

Timeline

4 October 1818

Frank Smedley , novelist, cousin and mentor of Menella Bute Smedley , was born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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.

Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Smedley, Frank. Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. A. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850.

prelims

1 May 1864

Frank Smedley , novelist, died at Grove Lodge, Regent's Park, London.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Texts

Smedley, Menella Bute. “A Very Woman”. Seven Tales by Seven Authors, edited by Frank Smedley, G. Hoby, 1849, pp. 20-35.

Smedley, Frank. Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. A. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850.

Yates, Edmund, and Frank Smedley. “Memorial Preface”. Gathered Leaves: Being a Collection of the Poetical Writings of the Late Frank E. Smedley, Virtue Brothers, 1865, p. xvi - xxiv.