Her brother, Sir John Peter Grant, was the father of Jane Maria Strachey.

As a child, she primarily spent time on her family's estate, Rothiemurchus, in Strathspey, and in London.

[1] In 1827 she and her family moved to Bombay in India, where John Peter Grant had secured a post as a judge after bankrupting the Rothiemurchus estate.

[1] In her later years Grant moved to Baltyboys House, her husband's family's estate in Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland.

[4] The first edition of Memoirs of A Highland Lady was published with the consent of Grant's daughter in 1898.