 Her brother was himself a resident of Romania, and married to Zoe, the daughter of Wallachian landowner and politician Alexandru Racoviţă (among their children was the painter Nicolae Grant).Through her brother Effingham, who married into the Racoviţă family, Maria Rosetti was also distantly related with physician Carol Davila and his son, playwright Alexandru Davila.Upon her death, a large obituary was published in the National Liberal newspaper "Voinţa Naţională", who proclaimed her one of the most outstanding Romanian women of her generation.