[1] Born Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley, she grew up in London in a small house in St. James Place with her parents, the politician Rt.

[1] She trained as an artist at the Slade School in Gower Street, an undertaking made more difficult by requiring accompaniment on the journey to and from so as to maintain respectability.

[1] This training gave her the ability to design and improve cottages on her husband’s properties at Ockham Park, Surrey, and Ashley Combe, Somerset.

"[6]Lady Mary Lovelace was also a writer and editor; she wrote the introduction and edited a book by her husband, titled Astarte, about his grandfather, Lord Byron, the famous poet.

[8] Due to her work in multiple disciplines, including philanthropy, Lady Mary Lovelace has been described by art historian Anne Anderson as a “lady reformer” or “’new woman’ of the era who quietly reshaped the roles and responsibilities of women in later Victorian and Edwardian England.”[3] While she is remembered as working towards the advancement of women, her brand of feminism is described as “want[ing] to gain admittance into the world of policy making, not disrupt[ing] it.”[3] As a notable woman of her time, Mary was portrayed in Edward Burne-Jones' famous painting, The Golden Stairs.