Sarah Dixon

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SD , who began writing poems by 1703, seems from the late appearance of her poetry volume as if she belonged to a later generation than she did. The book is notable for her writing in the genres of pastoral and satire. Her poetic talent is greater than her single, obscure volume would suggest.

Milestones

28 September 1671

SD was baptised in Rochester, Kent, the eldest of a family of three.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
129
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press.
136

1703

Internal textual evidence shows that many of SD 's published poems were written around this time, though the first date she puts in print is 1716.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press.
140

23 April 1765

SD died at Hackington, a suburb of Canterbury, aged ninety-three.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.

6 July 1774

The Ruins of St Austin's, Canterbury, which SD wrote at seventy-three, was posthumously published in the Kentish Gazette.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
152
Dixon, Sarah. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Abree.

Biography

Birth and Family

28 September 1671

SD was baptised in Rochester, Kent, the eldest of a family of three.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
129
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press.
136

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