| Short name |
Bertha Jane Leith - Adams |
| VIAF |
|
| First name |
Bertha Jane |
| Maiden name |
|
| Married name |
|
| 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
|
| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
-
|
| Bibliography |
Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. London/New York: Routledge, 2014. |
| Provisional Notes |
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 |