{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Frederick Smith''' (1806–1890) was an English novelist, who has been called "England's most popular novelist of the mid-nineteenth century".<ref>''ODNB''</ref> Smith became famous for his serializations in ''[[The London Journal]]''.
Smith edited ''Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany until the Close of the Diet of Worms'' (1889), which was begun by [[Charles Beard (Unitarian)|Charles Beard]] but left extremely incomplete due to his death in 1888.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Creighton, M.|author-link=Mandell Creighton|title=''Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany until the Close of the Diet of Worms'' by the late Charles Beard, edited by J. Frederick Smith|journal=The English Historical Review|volume=4|date=October 1889|pages=777–778|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012358373;view=1up;seq=791}}</ref>
==Works== *''Stanfield Hall'' (serialized 1849 in ''The London Journal''; 3 vols, 1888–89) *''Minnigrey'' (1851–52) *''Will and the Way'' *''Woman and her Master'' *''Temptation''
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==References== *Michael Wheeler, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37982 ‘Smith, John Frederick (1806–1890)’], rev., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press'', 2004, accessed 9 Sept 2007
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