Grove was born in 1863. Her parents were Lieutenant General
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox and Lady Alice Margaret Stanley (1828–1910), daughter of
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. Her elder brother was the electrical engineer
St George Lane Fox-Pitt. Unlike her siblings, who were primarily educated at home, she went to
Oxford High School. After inheriting the
Rushmore Estate in Dorset, of , from her father's cousin
Horace Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers, her father and her eldest brother took the name
Fox Pitt-Rivers on 25 May 1880. She, like the other eight children in the family, took the name Fox-Pitt. Her use of the name was short-lived as in 1883 she married Walter John Grove. The following year she was employed at 10 guineas a month to write for the
New Review.Her favourite method is to terrify people from doing things that are quite harmless by telling them that if they do they are the kind of people who would do other things, equally harmless. If you ask after somebody's mother (or whatever it is), you are the kind of person who would have a pillow-case, or would not have a pillow-case. In 1908, she published
The Human Woman which dealt with women's citizenship; it included her speech in Paris in 1900. In 1910 she published
On Fads. ==Family==