Sarah Chapone

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SC was not only an active networker in the cause of women during the earlier half of the eighteenth century; she also published two works (both hard to categorise because of their originality and their remoteness from generic expectations) which show remarkable feminist, analysis. Her topics are the law, women's history (at one remove), and conventions around sexual behaviour. Her private letters, too, often touch on women's issues.

Milestones

11 December 1699
Sarah Kirkham (later SC ) was born at Stanton near Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, where her father was the rector.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
May 1735
SC published, anonymously, a feminist treatise on women's legal situation: The Hardships of the English Laws in relation to Wives.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(May 1735): 283
Shortly before 24 February 1764
SC died, five years after her husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Family

11 December 1699
Sarah Kirkham (later SC ) was born at Stanton near Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, where her father was the rector.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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