John Frederick Smith

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

Notes

References

Michael Wheeler, ‘Smith, John Frederick (1806–1890)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 9 Sept 2007

1806 births

1890 deaths

English male novelists

19th-century English novelists

19th-century English male writers