Jessica Grove

Jessica Grove (19*-). Novelist and playwright.

In collaboration with Olga Racster she wrote a novel, The Phases of Felicity (1916), and two one-act plays War (published by the Cape Times Limited in 1914) and From German West (written in 1916).

She was the co-author with Olga Racster of Dr James Barry: her secret story (1932). She also campaigned with Racster to restore the grave of Dr James Barry in London.

Sources

NELM catalogue.

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