Grace Jane Wallace, Lady Wallace, née Stein (1804-1878) was a Scottish author.
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Wallace , Grace Jane, Lady Wallace (1804–1878)
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September ...
'', Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 18 March 2017.
Life
She was the eldest daughter of John Stein of Edinburgh. She became, on 19 August 1824, the second wife of
Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet
Sir Alexander Don, 6th baronet (1780–1826), of Newton Don, Berwick, was a British landowner, an officer in the British Army and a Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Roxburghshire from 1814 until 1826.
Life
Alexander was baptised on 5 May 1780. He ...
of Newton Don, and the intimate friend of
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy' ...
. She had two children:
Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet
Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet (1825–1862) was a British baronet and actor.
Biography
Don was born on 4 May 1825. His father, Sir Alexander Don, 6th baronet of Newtondon, Kelso, Scottish Borders, "the model of a cavalier in all courteous ...
, the actor; and Alexina Harriet, who married Sir
Frederick Acclom Milbank, bart., of Hart and Hartlepool.
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".
Sir Alexander died in 1826; and in 1836 his widow married Sir
James Maxwell Wallace
General Sir James Maxwell Wallace, KH (21 February 1783 – 3 February 1867), of Ainderby Hall, near Northallerton, was a British Army officer.
Biography
James Maxwell was born the fifth son of John Wallace of Kelly, a local landowner and ...
(1785–1867). Lady Wallace died on 12 March 1878 without children from her second marriage.
Works
Lady Wallace long and actively pursued a career as a translator of German and Spanish works, among others:
* ''The Princess Ilse'' (by
Marie Petersen
Marie Luise Auguste Petersen (31 July 1816 – 30 June 1859) was a German author famous for her fairy tale Princess Ilse.
Petersen came from a well off family of pharmacists in Frankfurt (Oder). Her grandfather, the "university pharmacist" Fried ...
), 1855
* ''Clara; or Slave-life in Europe'' (by
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer (1 November 1816 – 6 July 1877), was a successful German author.
Life
Hackländer was born in Burtscheid, now part of the city of Aachen, Germany. He was orphaned at the age of 12 ...
), 1856
* ''Voices from the Greenwood'', 1856
* ''The Old Monastery'' (by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer), 1857
* ''Frederick the Great and his Merchant'' (by
Luise Mühlbach
Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (née Clara Maria Regina Müller) (January 2, 1814 in Neubrandenburg – September 26, 1873 in Berlin), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction, which enjoyed a wide, though sh ...
), 1859
* ''Schiller's Life and Works'' (by
Emil Palleske), 1859
* ''The Castle and the Cottage in Spain'' (from the Spanish of
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero (24 December 1796 – 7 April 1877) was the pseudonym of Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea. She was daughter of German writer Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber and Spanish writer Frasquit ...
), 1861
* ''Joseph in the Snow'' (by
Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and r ...
), 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
Elise Vogel Polko (31 January 1823 in Leipzig – 15 May 1899 in Munich) was a German novelist.
Biography
She was a sister of Eduard Vogel
Eduard Vogel (7 March 1829February 1856) was a German explorer in Central Africa.
Early career
Vog ...
), 1868
* ''Alexandra Feodorowna'' (by
August Theodor von Grimm
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named ''Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in ...
), 1870
* ''A German Peasant Romance: Elsa and the Vulture'' (by
Wilhelmine von Hillern
Wilhelmine von Hillern (11 March 1836 Munich – 15 December 1916 Hohenaschau) was a German actress and novelist.
Biography
She was the daughter of the novelist Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She was brought up in Berlin, became an actress at Gotha ...
), 1876
* ''Life of Mozart'' (by
Ludwig Nohl
Ludwig Nohl (born 5 December 1831 in Iserlohn; died 15 December 1885 in Heidelberg) was a German music scholar and writer best known for discovering and publishing Beethoven's famous bagatelle, "Für Elise".
Life
After graduation from the Gymna ...
), 1877.
Notes
References
;Attribution
*. 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.
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