“ GRISWOLD, Mrs. Frances Irene Burge, author, born in Wickford, R. I., 28th April, 1826. She is a daughter of Rev. L. Burge and Elizabeth Frances Shaw. Mrs. Griswold inherited from her father, many of those traits of character most FRANCES IRENE BURGE GRISWOLD. . clearly manifest in her writings. He was a man of lofty purposes, broad sympathies and tender Christian piety. The child grew to womanhood beneath the historic shades of St Paul's Narragansett Church, of which her father was for twenty years the rector. Mrs. Griswold began to publish her literary work in 1853. ”