Grace Jane Wallace, Lady Wallace (née Stein formerly Lady Don; 1804 – 13 March 1878) was a Scottish author.
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Early life
Grace Jane Stein was born in 1804 as the eldest daughter of John Stein, an Edinburgh banker and distiller who served as MP for Bletchingley.
Career
Lady Wallace "built a career and reputation for herself through her work as a translator, in particular with her translations of the lives and letters of contemporary musicians for Longman's, which remained the standard English versions for generations."
Personal life
On 19 August 1824, she married, as his second wife, Sir Alexander Don, 6th Baronet of Newton Don, who was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott. Before his death on11 March 1826, they were the parents of two children:
Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet (1825–1862), the actor who married twice.
Alexina Harriet Don (c. 1826–1919), who married Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank, 1st Baronet, a grandson of the 1st Duke of Cleveland.
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".
After Sir Alexander died in 1826; Grace married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Maxwell Wallace (1785–1867) in 1836. 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), 1855
Clara; or Slave-life in Europe (by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer), 1856
Voices from the Greenwood, 1856
The Old Monastery (by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer), 1857
Frederick the Great and his Merchant (by Luise Mühlbach), 1859
Schiller's Life and Works (by Emil Palleske), 1859
The Castle and the Cottage in Spain (from the Spanish of Fernán Caballero), 1861
Joseph in the Snow (by Berthold Auerbach), 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), 1868
Alexandra Feodorowna (by August Theodor von Grimm), 1870