Life History

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

Notes

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, 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.

In the 1911 census, Edith is 70, and gives her occupation as Novelist. She has a servant living with her, Caroline Thomas, 48 , 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.

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

GRO

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