She offered her services for free to College Hall, London and became their first Lady Superintendent of Women Students.

Grove was so qualified that she was given the job despite missing the interview and sending her brother to speak on her behalf.

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

[2] They went on a brief holiday to Germany together and on her return Rosa approached the University of London offering to work for nothing.

[4] Eleanor's poor health obliged her to retire in 1890 to a house at 15 Tavistock Place and she died of heart failure there in 1905.