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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Joseph Crowther Hirst

Author: Joseph Crowther Hirst (1848–1919)

Biography: Joseph Crowther Hirst was born in 1848 in Huddersfield, the son of journeyman joiner John Hirst. He studies for the ministry and became a Unitarian minister. While serving in Cheltenham, he wrote a single novel Hiram Greg (1881). He married twice: in 1872 to Hannah Oakes Knight and in 1916 to Florence Amelia Pollard. He died on 6 January 1919 in Liverpool.

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References: British Census (1861, 1871, 1881, 1911); Probate

Fiction Titles:

  1. Hiram Greg.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1881.