Ellen A. Smith

Biography

Though there is not much biographical information available about Ellen Ada Smith, we do have information about her publishing history. She published several stories in her life. “In Her Own Way” was published in 1904 by Hutchinson and “First in the Field” was published by Digby in 1905 (Routledge xli, xxxvi). Smith was “alive in 1919” and was a “novelist” who wrote “The Typewriting Clerk” and “Tragedy at Laburnum Villa” (Houghton and Slingerland 721). Smith published these two stories in a periodical called Longman’s Magazine. One story is entitled “The Tragedy at Laburnum Villa” (Smith 40-50); the other is “The Typewriting Clerk” (Smith 431-46). Though I was not able to find out more information about the different stories Smith wrote, the titles suggest that she tried to write stories in various genres. Despite there being little biographical information about Ellen Ada Smith, since she has had various stories published in periodicals, we can guess that she was recognized as a writer.