Virginia Grace

Virginia Grace was born in 1901 in New York City to Lee Ashley and Virginia Fitz-Randolph Grace, a comfortably-off family with her father involved in importing cotton. She attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1922, after which she taught English and mathematics to secondary-school students for several years. ==Archaeological work==

Grace's work has included excavating Pergamon, Halai and tombs at Lapithos in Cyprus, and a lifelong affiliation with the Agora Excavations, starting in 1932. In 1935, she worked on the Bryn Mawr Tarsus excavations. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and received two Guggenheim Fellowships to advance her research, the first in 1938. She worked with the U.S. State Department, the O.S.S. Greek Affairs offices in Istanbul, İzmir, Cairo, and at Athens National Museum. ==References==