Geraldine Grove

Agnes Geraldine Grove born Agnes Geraldine Lane Fox also Agnes Geraldine Fox-Pitt; Lady Grove (25 July 1863 – 7 December 1926) was an English aristocrat, diarist and essayist. She wrote to support women's suffrage, anti-vivisection and anti-vaccination.

Life Grove was born in 1863. Her parents were Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox and Lady Alice Margaret Stanley (1828–1910), daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. Her elder brother was the electrical engineer St George Lane Fox-Pitt. Unlike her siblings, who were primarily educated at home, she went to Oxford High School.

After inheriting the Rushmore Estate in Dorset, of , from her father's cousin Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, her father and her eldest brother took the name Fox Pitt-Rivers on 25 May 1880. She, like the other eight children in the family, took the name Fox-Pitt. Her use of the name was short-lived as in 1883 she married Walter John Grove. The following year she was employed at 10 guineas a month to write for the New Review. Her favourite method is to terrify people from doing things that are quite harmless by telling them that if they do they are the kind of people who would do other things, equally harmless. If you ask after somebody's mother (or whatever it is), you are the kind of person who would have a pillow-case, or would not have a pillow-case.

In 1908, she published The Human Woman which dealt with women's citizenship; it included her speech in Paris in 1900. In 1910 she published On Fads.

Family Agnes Geraldine Fox-Pitt married in 1882 Walter John Grove, son of Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet. The couple had five children, three sons and two daughters.

The sons were: The couple had three sons, before the marriage was dissolved in Mexico in 1933, the eldest son Walter Felipe being the heir presumptive to the baronetcy.

The daughters were: Oenone (1889–1956), unmarried, a Red Cross volunteer in 1917 who joined the Royal Air Force in 1918.

Selected publications Articles (reprinted in The Human Woman)

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