Sarah Austin

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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.

Milestones

1 April 1793

Sarah Taylor (later SA ) was born in Norwich.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.

By 8 July 1854

SA published her best known original work, a social and intellectual history, Germany, from 1760 to 1814; or, Sketches of German Life, from the Decay of the Empire to the Expulsion of the French.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1393 (1854): 491

8 August 1867

SA died from heart and kidney disease at Weybridge in Surrey.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Biography

Birth and Early Life

1 April 1793

Sarah Taylor (later SA ) was born in Norwich.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
203
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.