Sarah Williams

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SW had a short and promising career in the late 1860s as a writer of journalism, poetry, and fiction aimed at both children and adults. Highly regarded by other writers, her work not only ranges widely across but also blends various genres; like many of her contemporaries, for instance, she displays an interest in dramatic poetic forms.
  • BirthName: Sarah Williams
  • Pseudonym: Sadie

Milestones

Perhaps 1841

SW was born in London, the only child of well-to-do parents.
Elisabeth Jay in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography puts her birth-date earlier: 1837 or 1838.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 179

25 April 1868

SW died, probably before she was thirty, at home at 95 Queen's Crescent, Kentish Town, of cancer, having bravely decided to undergo an operation which might, if successful, have improved her condition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 180
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
xiv

Late 1868

A volume of SW 's poems was edited and published after her death by E. H. Plumptre (who had taught her) as Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse.
Plumptre dated his memoir of her 23 November 1868.
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
xxxiii
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
xii, xxxiii
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, 1990.

Biography

Birth and Family

Perhaps 1841

SW was born in London, the only child of well-to-do parents.
Elisabeth Jay in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography puts her birth-date earlier: 1837 or 1838.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 179

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