page_title: Grace Frick
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Grace Frick / Career
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) - foto De Grendel Bernhard in 1982 te Bailleul.jpg
context_page_description: Grace Marion Frick was a translator and researcher for her lifelong partner French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Grace Frick taught languages at US colleges and was the second academic dean to be appointed to Hartford Junior College.
context_section_description: Grace Frick is most remembered for being the translator from French into English of Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss and Coup de Grâce  by Marguerite Yourcenar. Until Frick's death, Yourcenar allowed only her to translate her books.
  She taught at Stephens Junior College for Women (now Stephens College), Columbia, Missouri, and at Barnard College, New York City. After Yourcenar's arrival, in 1940, Frick became the second academic dean of Hartford Junior College (later Hartford College for Women), until 1943, and they moved together at 549 Prospect Ave, West Hartford. Other than administrative duties, Frick also taught English. After Hartford, Frick taught at Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College), New London, Connecticut.
  While in Hartford, Frick and Yourcenar were active in the arts community that originated around the Wadsworth Atheneum headed by Arthur Everett Austin, Jr..
caption: French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, her companion, in 1982.
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