Grace Human

Human was born in 1863.{{Cite web |title=Grace Black (later Grace Human) |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp84007/grace-black-later-grace-human?role=art |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=National Portrait Gallery |language=en}} Her father was the solicitor, town clerk and coroner David Black (1817–1892) of Brighton, son of a naval architect to Czar Nicholas I of Russia.{{Cite web |title=Clementina Black |url=https://www.womenofbrighton.co.uk/clementina-black.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Women of Brighton}} Her mother was Clara Maria Patten (1825–1875), daughter of portrait and history painter George Patten (1801–1865).{{cite ODNB|id=21570|title=Patten, George|first=Patricia|last=Morales}} Her father became paralysed in 1873, and two years later in 1875 her mother died from a heart attack after lifting him from his chair to his bed. After this, she was educated and raised by her eldest sister, Constance.{{Cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |date=2005-10-30 |title=The Translation Wars |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/the-translation-wars?currentPage=all |access-date=2025-04-13 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}

Human was one of eight children and among her siblings were the mathematician Arthur Black (1851–1893),{{Cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=1588&inst_id=13 |title=AIM25 entry on Arthur Black. |access-date=9 March 2018 |archive-date=11 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511045930/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=1588&inst_id=13 |url-status=dead }} Russian literature translator Constance Garnett (1861–1946), labour organiser and novelist Clementina Black (1853–1922), and painter Emma Black.{{Cite book |last=Livesey |first=Ruth |url=https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/21553 |title=Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 |date=2007-10-18 |publisher=British Academy |isbn=978-0-19-726398-3 |pages=229 |language=en |doi=10.5871/bacad/9780197263983.001.0001}}

Human was part of the social circle of George Bernard Shaw, and married the socialist engineer Edwin Human. In 1895, she travelled to Ceylon with her husband and became interested in theosophy.{{Citation |last=Livesey |first=Ruth |title=Legacies: Socialism, Aesthetics, and the Modernist Generation |date=2007-10-18 |work=Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 |pages=0 |editor-last=Livesey |editor-first=Ruth |url=https://academic.oup.com/british-academy-scholarship-online/book/21553/chapter-abstract/181397712?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-04-13 |publisher=British Academy |doi=10.5871/bacad/9780197263983.003.0008 |isbn=978-0-19-726398-3|url-access=subscription }}

As an artist, Human sketched portraits of activist Eleanor Marx,{{Cite web |last=Gibbin |first=Izzy |title=Love and tragedy in the British Library: The story of Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling Part 1 |url=https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/03/love-and-tragedy-in-the-british-library-the-story-of-eleanor-marx-and-edward-aveling-part-1.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=British Library |language=en}} and social worker Nellie Benson.

She died in 1934.

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