Grace Jane Wallace
Grace Jane Wallace, Lady Wallace (née Stein formerly Lady Don; 1804 – 13 March 1878) was a Scottish author.[1]
Early life[edit]
Grace Jane Stein was born in 1804 as the eldest daughter of John Stein, an Edinburgh banker and distiller who served as MP for Bletchingley.
Career[edit]
Lady Wallace "built a career and reputation for herself through her work as a translator, in particular with her translations of the lives and letters of contemporary musicians for Longman's, which remained the standard English versions for generations."[2]
Personal life[edit]
On 19 August 1824, she married, as his second wife, Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet of Newton Don, who was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott. Before his death on11 March 1826, they were the parents of two children:[3]
- Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet (1825–1862), the actor who married twice.
- Alexina Harriet Don (c. 1826–1919), who married Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet,[4] a grandson of the 1st Duke of Cleveland.[5]
In his Familiar Letters (ii.348) Sir Walter Scott writes to his son in 1825: "Mama and Anne are quite well; they are with me on a visit to Sir Alex. Don and his new lady, who is a very pleasant woman, and plays on the harp delightfully".
After Sir Alexander died in 1826; Grace married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Maxwell Wallace (1785–1867) in 1836. Lady Wallace died on 12 March 1878 without children from her second marriage.[4]
Works[edit]
Lady Wallace long and actively pursued a career as a translator of German and Spanish works, among others:[4]
- The Princess Ilse (by Marie Petersen), 1855
- Clara; or Slave-life in Europe (by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer), 1856
- Voices from the Greenwood, 1856
- The Old Monastery (by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer), 1857
- Frederick the Great and his Merchant (by Luise Mühlbach), 1859
- Schiller's Life and Works (by Emil Palleske), 1859
- The Castle and the Cottage in Spain (from the Spanish of Fernán Caballero), 1861
- Joseph in the Snow (by Berthold Auerbach), 1861
- Mendelssohn's Letters from Italy and Switzerland, 1862
- Will-o'-the-Wisp (by Marie Petersen), 1862
- Letters of Mendelssohn from 1833 to 1847, 1863
- Letters of Mozart, 1865
- Beethoven's Letters, 1790–1826, 1866
- Letters of Distinguished Musicians, 1867
- Reminiscences of Mendelssohn (by Elise Polko), 1868
- Alexandra Feodorowna (by August Theodor von Grimm), 1870
- A German Peasant Romance: Elsa and the Vulture (by Wilhelmine von Hillern), 1876
- Life of Mozart (by Ludwig Nohl), 1877.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Antonella Braida, Wallace , Grace Jane, Lady Wallace (1804–1878), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ O'Cinneide, M. (17 December 2015). Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867. Springer. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-230-58332-0. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Anderson, William (1867). The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland. A. Fullarton & Company. p. 40. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Stronach 1899, p. 98.
- ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. 1904. p. 647. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
References[edit]
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stronach, George (1899). "Wallace, Grace". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 98. . Endnotes
- Grove's Dict. of Music, vol. iv.; Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit.; Brit. Mus. Cat.; "Record of the 5th Dragoon Guards"; The Times, 7 Feb. 1867; Rogers's Book of Wallace (Grampian Club), i. 110–12; Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1860.
External links[edit]
- Works by Grace Wallace at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Grace Jane Wallace at Internet Archive
- Works by Grace Jane Wallace at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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