Charlotte Grove

Charlotte Grove (1773–1860) was an English diarist.

Biography
She was the first child and eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, a landowner of Ferne House, Donhead St
Andrew, Wiltshire, by his marriage to Charlotte Pilfold. Her sister Harriet Grove became known as the "first
love" of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

In 1827, at the age of 44, she married the new rector of Berwick St John, Richard Downes.

Charlotte kept a diary from 1811 until her death, although some years have not survived. The surviving
original diaries are held at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham. Edited diary entries are
included in The Grove Diaries,[1] which also features the diaries of three other members of the Grove family
including her sister Harriet (years 1809–1810) and much later, Agnes Geraldine Grove, daughter of Augustus
Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers and a friend of Thomas Hardy. Two volumes of transcriptions of the diaries were
published in 2007 and 2013.[2][3]

References
1. Desmond Hawkins (1995). The Grove Diaries: The Rise and Fall of an English Family, 1809-
1925 (https://books.google.com/books?id=a6_q-K-nQ18C). University of Delaware Press.
ISBN 978-0-87413-600-5.
2. Lane, John; Lane Kay, Valerie (2009). The diaries of Charlotte Downes: 1828, 1829, 1831-
1837 (https://books.google.com/books?id=mn4iAwAAQBAJ). Claret Jug Publications.
ISBN 978-0-9557226-3-9.
3. Lane, John; Lane Kay, Valerie (2013). The Diaries of Charlotte Downes Vol II (https://books.goo
gle.com/books?id=yAoZBQAAQBAJ). Claret Jug Publications. ISBN 978-0-9557226-4-6.

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