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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Robert Jones Griffiths

Author: Robert Jones Griffiths (1850–1892)

Biography: Robert Jones Griffiths was born in 1850 in Wales. He attended Cambridge University (M.A.) and Queen's University in Ireland (LL.D.). Initially destined for the church, he instead was called to bar. The author of several educational works, he also wrote two undistinguished novels Between Two Loves (1872) and In Secret Places (1874). He married and had one son. Griffiths died quite suddenly in 1892 in London, four months after the death of his son.

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References: British Census (1871, 1881, 1891); Times (22 May 1893)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Between Two Loves: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Samuel Tinsley, 1872.
  2. In Secret Places: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Samuel Tinsley, 1874.