Life History

12th Jan 1841	Born in 11, Cambridge St., Hyde Park, London.
19th May 1841	Baptised in Paddington, London.
30th Sep 1925	Died in Paddington, London.

Notes

Edith's Birth Certificate

Edith's birth certificate does not include the middle name 'Stewart', nor does her baptism record. She adopted the middle name later.

See also Georgina and her Sisters.

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 at 86, Southampton Row, parish of St. George, Bloomsbury:

Edith Stewart Drewry	Head	Single	50	Author, Novelist	b. Paddington, London
Laurentia Drewry	Sister	Single	44	Author, Novelist, Press Corrector	b. Kensington, London
William Bristow	Lodger	Mar.	62	House Painter & Decorator	b. London
Elizabeth Bristow	Wife Of Lodger Housekeeper	Mar.	63	In Service as Housekeeper	b. Croydon, Surrey
Mary Anne Bristow	Daughter	Single	23	Milliner	b. Paddington, London
Eliza Agatha Bristow	Daughter	Single	20	Dressmaker	b. Paddington, London

In the 1901 census at 2, Queen Square, St Andrew Holborn above the Bars and St George the Martyr:

Edith S Drewry	Head	Single	60	Novelist	b. London
Laurentia Drewry	Sister	Single	54	Novelist	b. London
Elizabeth Jackson	Servant	Widow	48	Servant Domestic	b. Gravesend, Kent

In 1902, Edith is the only member of our Drewry family with her name in the London Post Office phone book.

In the 1911 census at 250 Portsdown Road Maida Vale:

Edith Stewart Drewry		Single	70	Novelist	b. Paddington, London
Caroline Thomas	Servant	Single	48	General Servant Domestic	b. Shoreditch London

Edith the Author

Edith is mentioned in 'The London journal 1845-83' By Andrew King.
("This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born.")

'For somebody's sake': A novel. By Edith Stewart Drewry, ... In three volumes
By Edith Stewart Drewry
Published by F.V. White & Co., 31, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C., 1890
230 pages

'A death-ring' by Edith Stewart Drewry, published by Maxwell, 1890

Some Contemporaries
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.
[A review in the Morning Post, Nov, 1883]

An advert in The London Journal (LXVIII:368): "Series of tales within a frame narrative - thestories are by Clementine Montagu, James Grant, Pierce Egan, and the Author of 'A Wife's Honour' [Edith Stewart Drewry]."

Stories available on the Web:

The Engine Driver's Story

A Twin Identity

An Angel of Mercy

Probate

From freeBMD

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