Author Information At the Circulating LibraryAuthor: Ella J. Curtis (1850–1910) Alternate Name(s): Shirley Smith (pseudonym) Biography: Ella J. Curtis was born in 1850 in Ireland. Nothing is known of her antecedents. By her late twenties, she was working as a struggling journalist and novelist in London, living (in 1881) as a boarder in a home for ladies of limited means. Under the pseudonym "Shirley Smith," she wrote a half-a-dozen novels for Hurst and Blackett, dedicating her first All for Herself (1877) to George John Whyte-Melville. Curtis never married and died in 1910 in Dorset. References: British Census (1881, 1901); Times (9 August 1910) Titles:
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