Grace Donworth (July 22, 1857 – November 25, 1945) was an American writer and artist, based in Maine.

[6][7] She graduated from Notre Dame Academy, with further art training in Boston.

[9] Donworth joined other women in Providence, Rhode Island, to assemble relief shipments to the victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; while there, she wrote humorous letters to a fellow aid worker, Miss Stockbridge, in the persona of an "unsophisticated and old fashioned"[10] seamstress.

Stockbridge shared the letters with her brother and with a DAR meetings, and they eventually came to the attention of Mark Twain.

B. Kerfoot called The Letters of Jennie Allen "the best piece of homely fun of the year.