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She was born to parents George Washburn Smalley and Phoebe Garnaut. Her parents wed on Christmas day on 1892. Her father worked in London as a journalist for an American publication called The New York Tribune. Smalley was one of five children. Henry James was a close personal friend of the Smalley family and often dined with them. He told a colleague that he was fond of Smalley. In 1909 Smalley suffered a nervous breakdown and it seemed that a part of her healing process was to create an anthology of James’s works, which he agreed to let her publish. After living in London for some time, Smalley moved back to the States to live in New York. In 1907 Smalley published a defense of close person friend Ellen Terry’s autobiography. In the piece she is fiercely protective of Terry and claims her as a “woman of honor” and that her whole life has been one of “effort and constant hard work” (Smalley 6). Later in life she eventually became very involved with the war effort during World War One and was sent to the front by the Y.M.C.A. to serve as a nurse. She was assigned to canteen work for the French army during her time on the front and was also cited by the French army for the courage under fire. Smalley was decorated in 1923 by the Legion of Honor. During this time she was directed a soldier’s club at Duisburg. She died at 7:30am on March 24, 1938 in Hôtel de la Poste, Pau, Basses-Pyrénées in France of heart disease. Smalley contributed to the final issue of the Green Sheaf a small piece of poetry entitled The Wind.