Polly Grose traces the path of her Quaker ancestors...
From England to Minneapolis - CREATIVE NON-FICTION.  
Polly Grose has written and published four books. Thomas Janney, Hannah, and Phineas and His Cousins, are about her Quaker ancestors and their journey over the course of two hundred years from Cheshire,England to Philadelphia, Loudoun County, Virginia and finally Minneapolis, Minnesota. Polly has just published a memoir, A London Scrapbook.

Polly has three sons and five grandchildren. She attended Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts and graduated from Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis where she lived and brought up her family.

She became the first woman chairman of the Guthrie Theater Foundation Board from 1972-75. Joining the staff, she was Director of Development from 1975-1982. During those years she was also a Director of the St. Paul Companies, Inc. and the Tonka Corporation.

In 1984, Polly remarried and moved to London to live with her English husband, David Grose. While there she was the administrator of the U.K. program of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota and a member of the Fulbright Commission.

Following her husband's death in 2002, Polly came back to her native land and a condominium overlooking Lake Minnetonka in the western suburbs of Minneapolis. She enjoys vigorous tennis and bridge, and visits to her children and grandchildren on the West Coast.

Titles

  • Thomas Janney
  • Hannah
  • Phineas and His Cousins
  • Polly's memoir, A London Scrapbook, uses her British husband's Victorian scrapbooks to inspire the theme and ignite the memories of her twenty years in London. The publisher is Beaver's Pond Press and the price is $16.95 plus tax and postage. It is now available, June 2008.

Contact Information

Please contact Polly at polly@pollygrose.com.