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Iseult Grant Duff died in November, 1957, at the age of 70 years. She retired from active psycho-analytical practice at the end of the Second World War. At the outbreak of war, in 1939, she joined the Civil Defence and drove an ambulance at night through the air attacks on London. The fact that such an occupation was at variance with her personal preferences and experiences meant that she paid a heavy toll in health and strength.
Miss Grant Duff was a member of a well-known British family. Her father had been Governor of a Province when Britain ruled India, where she spent a number of years, and took an interest in social work. When she came to live in England, she made contact with psycho-analysis through the Brunswick Square Clinic, where the late James Glover and the late Ella Sharpe were working in the years following the 1914–18 war. She had her training analysis first with Dr. Edward Glover, and later with Dr. Hanns Sachs in Berlin, was admitted to Associate Membership of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in December 1923, and gained Membership in July 1933.
Her personality was quiet, imaginative and meditative. She had a sensitive appreciation of the needs of others and made few demands for herself. Her contributions to psycho-analysis were mainly her writings, which concerned a psycho-analytical approach to literature and poetry; several of these were published in German.
1'Die Beziehung Elisabeth-Essex; eine psycho-analytische Betrachtung'. (The relationship between Elizabeth and Essex; a psychoanalytic observation).
Psychoanalytische Bewegung, 1931.
2'A One-sided Sketch of Jonathan Swift'.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1937.
3'A Psychoanalytical Study of a Phantasy of Ste. Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus'.
Brit. J. Med. Psychol., 1925.