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Francis Henry Gribble
1862–1946
A British writer and journalist with a knack for turning history and literary lives into lively reading, he moved between fiction, travel writing, memoir, and biography over a long career. His work ranges from novels to studies of figures such as Byron, Balzac, and Catherine the Great.
6 Audiobooks
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron
by Francis Henry Gribble
Stromboli and the Guns
by Francis Henry Gribble
Geneva Painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis. Described by Francis Gribble.
by Francis Henry Gribble
Lausanne
by Francis Henry Gribble
The romance of the Oxford colleges
by Francis Henry Gribble
The life of the emperor Francis Joseph
by Francis Henry Gribble
About the author
Born in Devon in 1862, Francis Henry Gribble was educated at Chatham House, Ramsgate, and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied classics. He began as a teacher, then moved into journalism and writing, building a varied career that included fiction, travel books, biographies, and literary studies.
Gribble became especially known for books on historical and literary personalities. His subjects included Lord Byron, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Catherine the Great, showing a clear interest in vivid lives and dramatic personal histories. During the First World War, he also worked for the British Ministry of Information.
He published a memoir, Seen in Passing, in 1926, and continued to be remembered as a versatile man of letters rather than a writer confined to one genre. He died in 1946.