[1] Joseph Bennet Little, her landowner father, lost his money through gambling and, after receiving a good education from governesses, she and her sisters had to move to London as adults to earn a living.

She was both wife and literary companion to Ernest Percival Rhys whom she met at a garden party given by Yeats.

Her other work includes The Wooing of Sheila (1901),[3] The Bride (1909), and Five Beads on a String (1907), a book of essays.

[2] The Rhyses were known for entertaining writers and critics at their London home on Sunday afternoons.

Grace died from a heart attack at a hotel in Washington D.C. on 15 March 1929 while accompanying her husband on an American lecture tour.