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Template:Simple biographyShe was a prolific writer of sensation novels, publishing 20 books between 1838 and 1875.
Life
Smythies was born Harriet Maria Gordon in 1813[1] to an aristocratic military family in Margate, Kent. Her parents were Jane Gordon (neé Halliday) and Edward Lesmoir Gordon, a Sergeant-at-Arms. Smythie had four sibings, including a brother, Edward, who was Sergeant-at-Arms at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838.[2][3]
Smythies married Reverend William Yorick Smythies (1816-1910).[4][5]
Bibliography
Smythies works were published primarily by Richard Bentley, Thomas Cautley Newby, and Hurst and Blackett,[4] sometimes under the name "Mrs. Gordon Smythies."[6] Many of her novels involve themes of love and marriage.[2]
Poetry
- The Bride of Siena (poem, 1835)
Novels
- Fitzherbert: or, Lovers and Fortune-Hunters (1838)
- Cousin Geoffrey: The Old Bachelor, A Novel (1840)
- The Marrying Man (1841)
- The Matchmaker: A Novel (1842)
- The Jilt: A Novel (1844)
- Breach of Promise (1845)
- The Life of a Beauty: A Novel (1846)
- A Warning to Wives: or, The Platonic Lover (1847)
- Courtship and Wedlock (1850)
- The Bride Elect (1852)
- Married for Love (1857)
- A Lover's Quarrel: or, The County Ball (1858)
- Hope Evermore: or, Something to Do (1860)
- Alone in the World: A Novel (1861)
- The Daily Governess: or, Self Dependence (1861)
- True to the Last: A Novel (1864)
- A Faithful Woman (1865)
- Idols of Clay: A Novel (1867)
- Acquitted: A Novel (1870)
- Eva's Fortune (1875)
- ^ "Periodical / Newspaper Information". www.victorianperiodicals.com. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ^ a b Espinoza Garrido, Felipe (2019), "Smythies, Harriette Maria Gordon", The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–3, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_129-1, ISBN 978-3-030-02721-6, retrieved 2022-09-15
- ^ Summers, Montague (1945). "Mrs. Gordon Smythies". Modern Language Notes. 60 (6): 359–364. doi:10.2307/2911375. ISSN 0149-6611.
- ^ a b "Author: Harriet Maria Smythies". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ^ "HARRIETTE | Richard Ford". www.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ^ Smythies, Raymond Henry Raymond (1912). Records of the Smythies family. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. London : Mitchell.