Note 30 to Chapter 3 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Glynn, p. 70. Apparently, as he recovered from the financial crises, Smith also more than covered his looks, becoming by the mid-1850s what Elizabeth Gaskell called "too stout to be handsome" (Glynn., p. 90).
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