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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: William Andrew Ross

Author: William Andrew Ross (born 1818)

Biography: William Andrew Ross was born in 1818 in St. Vincent, West Indies. He is the author of the travel book A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden (1848). In 1860, he was appointed the colonial secretary of the Gold Coast and eventually served briefly as governor. Living in 1887.

References: British Census (1871)

Fiction Titles:

  1. An Old Road and an Old River.  2 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1860.
  2. The Hunt of the Glenkens.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1866.