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Leith-Adams, Bertha Jane (1837 - 1912)

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Short name Leith-Adams, Bertha Jane
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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
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Place of birth 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.
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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