Life History

Notes

• In the 1871 census, Edith's profession is given as 'Author'.
  
  In the 1881 census , living at her father's house, 1 Westbury Terrace, unmarried; 'Author Novelist & Press Writer'.
  
  In the 1891 census , Edith is 'Head' of household at: 92 Southhampton Row, parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
  Also living at the house are: her sister Laurentia, 44, and, as lodgers, a family of four (Bristow), one of whom is listed as 'Housekeeper'.
  Edith is described in the census as: 'Author (novelist)'
  
  In the 1901 census, Edith is 60, in the Civil Parish of St Andrew & St George The Martyr. Her sister Laurentia, 54, is still living with her. They have a servant living with them, Elizabeth Jackson, 48.
  
  "Edith Stewart Drewry
  The writers discussed range from Catherine Gore and Anna Jameson at the beginning of the period, through Dinah Mulock Craik, Charlotte Yonge and Mary Braddon to Florence Marryat, Edith Stewart Drewry and Charlotte Riddell in the early 1880s."
  
  web.soi.city.ac.uk
  Title : "Baptized with a Curse" - Author: Drewry, Edith S.
  Also found in 'The FictionMags Index':
  'A Dangerous Bouquet', (ss) The Novelette #23 1878
  'Under the Threshold', (sl) The Novelette #7, #8 1878
  and in Posted_Ghosts: 'The Black Pointer', by Elizabeth(?) Stewart Drewry 8/19/05
  
  Quote from Google's description of Authentic performance in theatrical women's fiction of the 1870s: "Off the Stage (1879), Florence Marryat’s My Sister the Actress (1881), and Edith Stewart Drewry’s Only An Actress (1883) subsequently constitute intriguing ..."
  
  At victorianresearch.org:
  Baptized with a Curse: A Novel. 3 volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1870.
  On Dangerous Ground: A Novel. 3 volumes. London: White, 1883.
  Only an Actress. 3 volumes. London: White, 1883.

  GRO
  
  Birth: Mar 1841, Kensington, 3, 280
  Death: Dec 1925 Drewry Edith, age: 84, Paddington 1a 1