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Elliott Graeme
Writing under the pen name Elliott Graeme, this Victorian novelist and biographer moved between fiction and music writing, and is best remembered for works like A Novel with Two Heroes and Beethoven: A Memoir.
1 Audiobook
Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)
by Elliott Graeme
About the author
Elliott Graeme was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Eaves Griffin (1845–1899), a Scottish-born writer. She was born in Glasgow on April 17, 1845, the daughter of publisher Charles Griffin, and later moved with her family to London in 1859.
From an early age, she took an interest in her father’s publishing work. That background helps explain the range of books associated with her name, including the 1872 novel A Novel with Two Heroes and the later Beethoven: A Memoir, which gave her a small but lasting place in Victorian literary history.
Reliable biographical details about her life appear to be limited, so most surviving information focuses on her publications rather than on her personal story. Even so, her work under the name Elliott Graeme still stands out as an intriguing example of a 19th-century woman writing under a literary pseudonym.