A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Griffith, Elizabeth

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GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH,

A novelist and dramatic writer of some eminence, first distinguished herself by the "Letters of Henry and Frances," which contained the genuine correspondence between her and her husband before their marriage. She also wrote "Memoirs of Ninon de l'Enclos," the "Morality of Shakespere's Dramas Illustrated," three novels, four comedies, and "Essays addressed to Young Married Women." She died in Ireland, in 1793.