Grote, Harriet (1792–1878)

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Grote, Harriet (1792–1878)

English writer and biographer. Born Harriet Lewin near Southampton, England, on July 1, 1792; died at Shiere, near Guildford, Surrey, on December 29, 1878; married George Grote (1794–1871, an English historian, who wrote a History of Greece, and member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841), in 1820.

Harriet Lewin was born near Southampton, England, on July 1, 1792. She married George Grote, a celebrated English historian and member of Parliament, in 1820. Two years after his death in 1871, she published his biography, The Personal Life of George Grote; she had also written The Life of Ary Scheffer (1860).

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