Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sarah Scott
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Standard Name: Scott, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Robinson
Nickname: Sally
Nickname: Pea
Nickname: Bridget
Married Name: Sarah Scott
Pseudonym: A Person of Quality
Pseudonym: Henry Augustus Raymond, Esq.
Pseudonym: A Gentleman on his Travels
SS
, who published during the second half of the eighteenth century, wrote for money and never signed her name to her work. She is known as a novelist; but as a historian and translator she also deserves the appellation of woman of letters, and as one who chose to pursue an alternative, carefully-thought-out, woman-centred lifestyle she deserves the appellation of feminist. Her fictional writing does not repeat itself in form but takes on new technical issues with each title. Her concerns are always those of proto-feminism: the problems of middle-class women disadvantaged by poverty, lack of beauty, and absence of outlets for their talents, and the plight of lower-class women and the disabled.
She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...
Friends, Associates
Catharine Macaulay
Early in her life CM
knew (or was known to) the somewhat older Robinson sisters (the future Elizabeth Montagu
and Sarah Scott
), whose mother's family estate was not far from her father's.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Remembering Beyond the Great Forgetting”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith also made a warm friend of Lady Isabella King
(who later founded Bailbrook House near Bath as a refuge for gentlewomen without funds).
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
53-6, 62
Indeed, though Smith died years before Lady Isabella...
Friends, Associates
Susan Smythies
It sounds as if SS
knew or was known to Samuel Richardson
and some members of his circle. He and all his family subscribed to her last novel, and correspondence relating to Smythies passed between...
Friends, Associates
Bathsua Makin
BM
's brother-in-law John Pell called her a woman of great acquaintance.
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press.
82
She was a lifelong friend of diarist and antiquarian Sir Simonds D'Ewes
, who had been at her father's school, and of...
Friends, Associates
Sarah Fielding
Socially speaking, Bath was a good choice for her, putting her within reach of, for instance, James Leake
and Ralph Allen
, as well as many friends visiting from London. The group comprising her, Scott
MD
is generally recognised to be the original of Miss Melvyn (later Mrs Morgan) in Sarah Scott
's Millenium Hall.
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, pp. 113-40.
128-9
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Calderwood
MC
's editor gives plenty of space to the exploits of her Steuart ancestors: to her great-grandfather, Sir James Stewart (1608-81), Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who attempted to be a moderate in Covenanting times and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Miller
Her mother, born Margaret Pigott
, came from a long-established Shropshire family and probably had literary interests, since she was a member of the circle of independent-minded women formed around Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Robinson (later EM
) was sent away from home to protect her from catching smallpox from her sister, Sarah
.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
38
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth's sister, Sarah
, later became the novelist Sarah Scott.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press.
