A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Griffith, (Mrs.)
GRIFFITH (MRS.) Wife of Richard Griffith, Esq. an Irish Gentleman, and an Author,
First distinguished herself by the Letters of Henry and Frances, which contained the correspondence of herself and husband, both before their marriage and for some years after. They were published at the particular request of Margaret, countess of York, who was one of the confidants of this connection, which was first kept secret; for family reasons. This collection has passed through many editions. Her next work was. Memoirs of Ninon de l'Enclos, translated from the French, with original comments, and she has treated the subject with particular judgment and delicacy. A dramatic poem, named Amana, was her next publication, which was followed by three popular novels. The Delicate Distress, History of Lady Barton, and The Story of Lady Juliana Burley. In some of the intervals to these publications, she produced three comedies, the Platonic Wife, the Double Mistake, and the School for Scandal, all of which were acted with much applause. Another, called a Wife in the Right, had not the same success.
The last and most valuable of her works were, the Morality of Shakespeare's Drama illustrated, and Essays to Young Married Women. She died 1793, at Millicent, in the county of Kildare, Ireland.