Edward Smedley

Standard Name: Smedley, Edward

Connections

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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...
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...
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

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.