Sarah Pearson

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SP began placing poetry in magazines in the late 1780s, and went on to publish two collections, the first political-reformist and sentimental, and the second lighter in tone. She was also the author of a remarkable novel in the genre where the protagonist is an inanimate object.
  • BirthName: Sarah Pearson
  • Pseudonym: Angelina
  • Indexed: S. Pearson; Susanna Pearson

Milestones

Shortly before 6 June 1767

SP was born in Sheffield. This was the day of her baptism in the cathedral there.
Sandro Jung is mistaken in giving the date of 1779.
Jung, Sandro. “Susanna Pearson and the Elegiac Lyric”. Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol.
78
, No. 2, 8 Mar. 2006, pp. 153-64.
153
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.

21 May 1788

SP dated the poem which seems to have been her first to appear in print: Sonnet to Painting, which was published under the pseudonym of Angelina in the Sheffield Register on 7 June 1788.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.

21 May 1833

SP died at the age of sixty-five. She was buried three days later at Attercliffe (which is now part of Sheffield), in the family gravesite.
SP has been wrongly said to have died in 1827, the year of Susanna (Flinders) Pearson's death.
Jung, Sandro. “Susanna Pearson and the Elegiac Lyric”. Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol.
78
, No. 2, 8 Mar. 2006, pp. 153-64.
153
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.

Biography

Birth and Family

Shortly before 6 June 1767

SP was born in Sheffield. This was the day of her baptism in the cathedral there.
Sandro Jung is mistaken in giving the date of 1779.
Jung, Sandro. “Susanna Pearson and the Elegiac Lyric”. Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Vol.
78
, No. 2, 8 Mar. 2006, pp. 153-64.
153
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.