Eleanor Smith

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Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902, Birkenhead – 1945) was an English writer. The eldest of the politician F. E. Smith's three children, she worked as a society reporter and cinema reviewer for a while, then as a publicist for circus companies. In the latter role she travelled more widely, and gained inspiration for her third career, writing popular novels and short stories which often provided the basis for the 'Gainsborough melodramas' of the period. These stories often had a romanticised historical or Gypsy setting, based on her own research into Romany culture (she believed one of her paternal great-grandmothers to have been a gypsy).

Novels

Year	Novel	Film adaptation
	Red Wagon	Red Wagon (1933)
	Tzigane	Gypsy (1937)
	Ballerina	The Men in Her Life (1941)
	The Man in Grey	The Man in Grey (1943)
	Caravan	Caravan (1946)

External links

Eleanor Smith at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Smith, Eleanor
Alternative names
Short description	British writer
Date of birth	1902
Place of birth
Date of death	1945
Place of death

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