author
A. Hume-Griffith
A British medical missionary and co-author of a vivid early 20th-century travel memoir, he wrote from years spent working in Persia and Turkish Arabia. His surviving work offers a rare on-the-ground view of mission medicine, travel, and daily life in the region.
1 Audiobook
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East
by M. E. Hume-Griffith, A. Hume-Griffith
About the author
A. Hume-Griffith is best known as the co-author of Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia, a book published in 1909. The title page identifies him as A. Hume-Griffith, M.D., D.P.H., and contemporary records connect him with medical missionary work in Persia and Mosul.
The book was written with M. E. Hume-Griffith and draws on about eight years of life in Persia and Turkish Arabia in the early 1900s. While much of the narrative centers on domestic life and the lives of women in the region, his contributions focus more directly on travel, medicine, and missionary experience.
A medical journal record identifies him more fully as Alfred Hume Griffith, helping place him as a British doctor as well as a writer. Although not much biographical detail is easy to confirm today, his surviving work remains valuable for readers interested in travel writing, cross-cultural encounters, and the history of medical missions.