John Austin

Her husband, John Austin , died on 17 December 1859. He had been hardly known during his lifetime, outside the couple's small gathering of acquaintances. SA 's success was the foundation of his posthumous reputation.

Soon after SA 's marriage to John Austin in 1819 his career began to fail, and she became a translator to support her family.

After SA 's husband 's death in 1859, she wrote a preface for his The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1861). This was later reprinted in her edited version of his Lectures on Jurisprudence; or, The...

This book includes portraits. Lotte and Joseph Hamburger 's Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin appeared in 1985 followed by their Contemplating Adultery: The Secret Life of a Victorian Woman in 1991. This second work...