the Rev. William Yorick Smythies

Standard Name: Smythies, the Rev. William Yorick

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Smythies
HS married the Rev. William Yorick Smythies , a member of a family prolific in clergymen.
The family was that of the mid-eighteenth-century novelist Susan Smythies .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(7 July 1910): 13
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Smythies
HS left her husband , who was not only a failure as a clergyman but a poor manager of money, and had wasted much of their resources on unsuccessful litigation.
Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Material Conditions of Writing Harriet Smythies
HS had almost certainly left her husband by the time that her three-volume novel True to the Last appeared, since it probably marks her first use of the name Mrs. Gordon Smythies.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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