| 词条 | Bertha Jane Grundy |
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Private lifeBertha Jane was born on 24 August 1837 as the eldest daughter of Frederick Grundy, solicitor, and Jane, née Beardoe. She was first married on 26 October 1859 to Andrew Leith Adams and moved with him to Malta, where the older of her two sons, Francis Adams, was born. Nine years after Adams's death in 1882 she married Rev. Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan, who was Headmaster of King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon in 1885–95, Principal of Cheltenham College, Cheltenham in 1895–99, and Rector of St Stephen Walbrook, London (1899–1927). Both her sons died young: the younger of tuberculosis in Queensland in 1892, and the older, also tubercular, by committing suicide in Margate in 1893.[2] Apart from her writing, her other interests include piano-playing and dogs. Bertha Jane Grundy died at home in Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London, on 5 September 1912.[2] WorkGrundy's first publication, a short story entitled "Keane Malcombe's Pupil", appeared in 1876 in All the Year Round,[2] where she was on the staff from 1895. Her most successful work was Geoffrey Stirling (1883), "which described a wife's revenge on the man who killed her husband."[3] Turning later to poetry (two volumes), drama and non-fiction, she wrote several practical lectures addressed to other women writers, urging them, for instance, "to do nothing without being paid."[2] Bibliography{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
}} References1. ^ALA Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/peytonromance01laff Retrieved 5 April 2018.] 2. ^1 2 3 Ellen Miller Casey: "Adams [née Grundy; other married name de Courcy Laffan], Bertha Jane Leith", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK, OUP), 2004 Retrieved 5 April 2018. Pay-walled. 3. ^Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue Women Writers 1795–1927 Part I: A–F (London, Summer 2017). 4. ^{{cite journal|title=Review of The Old Pastures by Mrs. Leith Adams|journal=The Athenaeum|date=18 January 1896|issue=No. 3560|page=82|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c3469032;view=1up;seq=98}} External link
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