Leith-Adams, Bertha Jane (1837 - 1912)
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| Short name | Leith-Adams, Bertha Jane |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/8710550/ |
| First name | Bertha Jane |
| Birth name | Grundy |
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| Alternative name | Bertha Jane Grundy — Mrs Leith - Adams — Bertha Jane De Courcy Laffan |
| Date of birth | 1837 |
| Date of death | 1912 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | England |
| Place of death | - |
| Lived in | England |
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| Religion / ideology | Protestant |
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| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Leith-Adams, Bertha Jane was ...
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| Place(s) of Residence | England |
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| Aunt Hepsy's Foundling (1884) | 1 | 0 |
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Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. London/New York: Routledge, 2014.
Wikipedia
Information below from Sutherland (2014), p.4:
Worked on staff of All The Year Round.
Married to Andrew Leith-Adams, Surgeon-General. Widowed in 1882. Remarried, to rev. Robert Stuart De Courcy Laffan.
Nursed soldiers during a cholera epidemic (1865).
Children from first marriage died before her.
Promoted women's and working-class education.
KLK 1904