[1] She worked as a governess in Germany and in Austria and she translated two novels: An Egyptian Princess by Georg Ebers and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

[2][3] When Queen's College, London advertised for an assistant secretary, Grove was so qualified that she was given the job despite missing the interview.

Moreover the college was failing to rise to the opportunity raised by the aspiring ambitions for women's education by the University of London.

[5] Grove's poor health obliged her to retire in 1890 to a nearby house at 15 Tavistock Place, where she died of heart failure in 1905.

After a service at St Pancras, she was buried in the family vault at West Norwood Cemetery[1] University College, London grants an annual scholarship in her name.