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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: William Mullinger Higgins

Author: William Mullinger Higgins (1808–1882)

Biography: William Mullinger Higgins was born in 1808 in Chatham, the son of a woollen draper. He studied for the bar but turned to science and engineering where he wrote works on architecture, geology, sound, and mining. In addition, he wrote a historical novel, Aristomenes: A Grecian Tale (1838). He married and had at least two sons. In 1881, he lived in Wales where he apparently died the following year.

References: British Census (1881)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Aristomenes: A Grecian Tale.  2 vol.  London: Robert Tyas, 1838.