Menella Bute Smedley Biography

Menella Bute Smedley (1819-1877) was a novelist and poet.

A relative of Lewis Carroll, Smedley wrote some minor novels and books of poems, including the anonymous, The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses, 1863.

She translated the old German ballad "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains" into English in 1846. Roger Lancelyn Green, in the Times Literary Supplement (1 March 1957), and later in The Lewis Carroll Handbook (1962), suggests that Carroll’s Jabberwockey may have been inspired by this work.

She died at her home at Regent's Park, London on 25 May 1877 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.

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