Grace Elliott
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Paris, from the early days of the French Revolution through to the Terror (which she barely survived). Her text, not published till a generation after her death, is a mix of history, heroicised autobiography and biographical sketches, and highly personalised political commentary.
is not a courtesan memoirist in the usual sense, since her one surviving work, her published journal, is silent on the topic of her love-affairs. It covers exclusively her experience, mostly in - BirthName: Grissel Dalrymple
- Nickname: Dally the Tall
- Self-constructed: Grace; Madame St Maur
- Married: Elliott
- Indexed: Grace Dalrymple Elliott; Grace Eliot