Sarah Fyge

01 January 1670 - 13 February 1723

SF 's career as a feminist poet began when she was very young, in the late seventeenth century, and continued into the eighteenth century. Her letters, although they were printed, seem not to have been written for publication.

Milestones

1670

SF was born in London, one of a family of six daughters.

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2 June 1686

SF was still in her teens when her first, fighting poem, The Female Advocate, was licensed in London; it was published the same year, with her initials on the prefatory To the Reader.

This text is available on line from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu.

Fyge, Sarah. The Female Advocate. John Taylor.

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1687

A second edition of SF 's poem The Female Advocate appeared: it was technically improved and just as forceful.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

5 July 1706

SF 's The Female Advocate was reprinted again, as by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex,

Fyge, Sarah. The Female Advocate. John Taylor.

prelims

and with 1707 on the title-page.

Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.

13 February 1723

SF died at Winslow in Buckinghamshire after a few years of widowhood.

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Biography

Birth

1670

SF was born in London, one of a family of six daughters.

Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.

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