About Naomi Royde-Smith
Lived 1875 – 1964 (aged 88–89). Naomi Royde-Smith was a British literary editor, writer, biographer and journalist.
Naomi Royde-Smith (1875–1964) was a British writer who published nearly four dozen novels, biographies, and plays. She was the first woman literary editor of the Westminster Gazette and in that capacity published the early work of Rupert Brooke, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macaulay and others.
Early life and education Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 30 April 1875.
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literary editor and writer
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Naomi Royde-Smith died in 1964.
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Naomi Royde-Smith was a literary editor, writer, biographer and journalist.
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