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
was a god-daughter of Henry Hawkins
(brother of the novelist and woman of letters Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
). Her mother corresponded with Laetitia-Matilda.
Smedley, Edward. Poems by the late Edward Smedley. Baldwin and Cradock, 1837.
vii, 288, 376
Textual Production
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
LMH
collaborated with her brother Henry
in writing and publishing Sermonets.
The original Dictionary of National Biography ascribed these to Henry alone.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
12 (1814): 257
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Texts
Hawkins, Henry, and Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins. Sermonets. F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814.