Grace Elliott
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Standard Name: Elliott, Grace
Birth Name: Grace Dalrymple
Married Name: Grace Elliott
Nickname: Dally the Tall
Indexed Name: Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Indexed Name: Grace Eliot
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 Timeline
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Texts
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. R. Bentley, 1859.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955.
Unknown Editor, and Grace Elliott. “Preface”. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, The Rodale Press, 1955, p. ix - xiii.