Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sarah Austin
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Standard Name: Austin, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Taylor
Nickname: Sally
Married Name: Sarah Austin
Used Form: Mrs Austin
Sarah Austin
was primarily known as a translator of weighty books, but was also an editor and an author of works on female education and German intellectual history. From the 1820s to the 1850s she translated at least sixteen works and edited and wrote several others.
Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi.
iii, v n6
Friends, Associates
Harriet Martineau
HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucie Duff Gordon
Her husband, Alick, whom she met at Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, was an impoverished baronet who was a clerk in the Treasury. LDG
's mother
wrote of him: Alexander has nothing but...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG
endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau
's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG
's mother, born Sarah Taylor
, was a writer and translator from a family of prominent dissenters living in Norwich. At times the sole provider for her husband and daughter, she also gave...
Education
Amelia Opie
AO
is said to have had little formal education. She was, however, trained in charitable activity on the one hand, and on the other she learned French and was encouraged in her literary interests and...
Education
Lucie Duff Gordon
Her mother
voiced some anxiety about Lucie's development. The child had grown very tall, and, Sarah Austin said, though she has admirable qualities, I am not satisfied with her. She is too wild, undisciplined, and...
Cultural formation
Lucie Duff Gordon
Presumably white, LDG
grew up in a radical liberal, professional family of English descent. Both her parents were highly intellectual and prominent in political circles, and both were published authors. Her mother
brought her up...
Birth
Lucie Duff Gordon
Lucie Austin (later LDG
), only child of Sarah
and John Austin
, was born at the then 1 Queen Square in London.
This part of the square was later replaced by what is now Queen Anne's Gate.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
13-14
Anthologization
Lucie Duff Gordon
Lucie Duff Gordon
's Letters from the Cape were included in Francis Galton
's anthology Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3; her mother, Sarah Austin
, again provided a brief introduction.
Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-22.
