Smedley

Smedley, FRANCIS EDWARD, novelist, was born in 1818 at Marlowe. Always deformed, he took early to writing, his half-dozen works including Frank Fairleigh (1850), Lewis Arundel (1852), and Harry Coverdale's Courtship (1855). Bright, cheery books, these appeared originally in Sharpe's Magazine, of which Smedley for two years was editor, and they were illustrated by Cruikshank and 'Phiz.' He died in London, 1st May 1864.