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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMEDLEY, See also:FRANCIS [See also:FRANK] See also:EDWARD (1818-1864) , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at See also:Great See also:Marlow, See also:Buckinghamshire, on the 4th of See also:October 1818, a member of a Flintshire See also:family. A cripple from his See also:birth, he was educated privately, and contributed his first See also:book, Scenes from the See also:Life of a Private See also:Pupil, anonymously to See also:Sharpe's See also:London See also:Magazine in 1846–1848. His first See also:essay proved so successful that it was See also:expanded into Frank Fairleigh, and published in book-See also:form in 185o. His next book See also:Lewis See also:Arundel: or the Railroad of Life was originally contributed to the same magazine, which he for some See also:time edited, and was published in book-form in 1852. Of his other writings the best-known is Harry See also:Coverdale's Courtship (1855). These are all See also:capital stories, racily told. Either Hablot See also:Knight See also:Browne (" Phiz ") or See also:George See also:Cruikshank supplied illustrations for most of his books. Smedley died in London on the 1st of May 1864.

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