Grace Gethin

Grace Gethin

1699 engraving
Born 1676
Died 1697
Nationality Kingdom of England
Genre Essayist

Grace Gethin or Grace Norton (1676 – 1697) was an English essayist. She died young and her parents paid for memorials to her.

Life

Gethin was born in 1676. She was the last child of Frances Norton, Lady Norton and her husband Sir George Norton and she was probably born at Abbotsleigh. They had already had two children who had died young.[1]

Gethin married an Irish noble Sir Richard Gethin. After her death 29 essays were published with her as the nominal author. Later analysis reveals that Francis Bacon's words appear without attribution in a quarter of them.[2]

She died aged 21 after taking communion the day before. She was buried in Hollingbourne Church where there is a memorial to her. Her parents paid for another memorial in Westminster Abbey and a sermon to be read every Ash Wednesday to remember her life.[1] Her mother wrote books about her grief.

References

  1. 1 2 "Grace Gethin". www.westminster-abbey.org. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  2. ↑ David Wilson, ‘Gethin , Grace, Lady Gethin (1676–1697)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 Jan 2017


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