About John Frederick Smith
Lived 1806 – 1890 (aged 83–84). John Frederick Smith was a British writer and novelist.
John Frederick Smith (1806–1890) was an English novelist, who has been called "England's most popular novelist of the mid-nineteenth century". Smith became famous for his serializations in The London Journal.
Smith edited Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany until the Close of the Diet of Worms (1889), which was begun by Charles Beard but left extremely incomplete due to his death in 1888.
Works Stanfield Hall (serialized 1849 in The London Journal; 3 vols, 1888–89) Minnigrey (1851–52) Will and the Way Woman and her Master Temptation
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Who was John Frederick Smith?
UK author, active from around 1830, very popular in the mid-nineteenth century (1806-1890)
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John Frederick Smith was born in 1806.
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John Frederick Smith died in 1890.
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John Frederick Smith was a writer and novelist.
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