Bertha Jane Grundy was a novelist born in 1837?; she died on 5 September 1912. She was first married on 26 October 1859 to Andrew Leith Adams. After his death in 1882 she remarried to Rev. Robert Stuart de Courcy Laffan. She was the mother of Francis Adams.
Nancy's Work, 1876Winstowe, 3 vol., 1877Madelon Lemoine, 3 vol., 1879My Land Of Beulah, 3 vol., 1880Aunt Hepsy's Foundling, 3 vol., 1881Cosmo Gordon, 3 vol., 1882Expiated, 1882Lady Deane, 1882Geoffrey Stirling, 3 vol., 1883My Brother Sol, 3 vol., 1883A Song Of Jubilee, 1887Mathilde, a short story in All the Year Round, third series, summer extra, 1889Louis Draycott, 1890; serialised in All the Year Round, third series, vols. 1 and 2, 1889Bonnie Kate, 1891The Peyton Romance, 1892A Garrison Romance, 1892The Cruise Of 'The Tomahawk', 1892Colour Sergeant, No 1 Company, 2 vol., 1894The Old Pastures, 1895The Prince's Feathers, 1899Accessory After The Fact, 1899Cruel Calumny, 1901The Dream Of Her Life, 1902What Hector Had To Say, 1902The Vicar Of Dale End, 1906Poems, 1907Dreams Made Verity, 1910The Story Of The Brotherhood Of Hero Dogs, 1910A Book Of Short Plays And A Memory, 1912