author
Francis Henry Gribble
1862–1946
A British journalist, novelist, and biographer, he moved from teaching classics into London literary life and wrote widely on history, travel, and the dramatic private lives of famous figures. His books often blend lively storytelling with a strong feel for character and society.
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 studied at Chatham House, Ramsgate, and then at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a degree in classics in 1884. He first taught classics before leaving for London in 1887 to work as a journalist.
Gribble wrote across several genres, including fiction, travel writing, memoir, and biography. He is especially associated with books on notable European literary and historical figures, such as George Sand, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, and Lord Byron, and he also published novels early in his career.
During the First World War, he worked at the British Ministry of Information, later drawing on that experience in his memoir Seen in Passing (1926). He died in London in 1946, leaving behind a varied body of work shaped by both literary curiosity and a journalist’s eye for vivid detail.