The fame of SS 's elder sister, Elizabeth , later eclipsed her own. They enjoyed a very close relationship while they were growing up. Their nickname the two Peas suggests how they were regarded as a matched pair. In 1734 Elizabeth entered London society as companion to her friend Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland , leaving Sarah behind on the family estate. Sarah felt deeply the loss of her sister's companionship. After Elizabeth married George Montagu in August 1742, Sarah stayed with her sister at various times until she moved in with Lady Barbara Montagu. Elizabeth also supplemented Sarah's income on many occasions. The two sisters maintained a close relationship throughout their lives.

SH was a leading Quaker pamphleteer of the mid eighteenth century. She published religious and moral exhortations, an anthology, and a diatribe against smallpox inoculation, in England and America.

BB had a brother who died of smallpox when she was eighteen. Her first response to his illness was terror; only when he died was she plunged into grief.

HMB 's sister Jane , seven years her senior and the eldest of the family, was a gifted woman, a poet whose health was ruined by smallpox at the age of sixteen and measles soon afterwards. She became a permanent invalid by 1771.

She mentions having measles, and two attacks of smallpox (which would mean that one of them must have been chickenpox).

SS was attacked by smallpox in 1688, but survived. As she grew older her sight deteriorated until she could not read a word without glasses (which made her consider that she ought to spend more time in prayer and meditation instead of reading).

DO , now in London to prepare for her wedding to Sir William Temple , was ill with smallpox.

At some time before she was married, Frances Thynne suffered from smallpox, which left her a little marked.

Helen Neale, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, first hears of Father Phim as someone after whom her brother Hilary, as an irritating joke, insists on calling her: fat Father Phelemy Phim Philip M'Quirk. But when she is sent from her urban English home to convalesce at her grandfather's estate in Ireland after having had smallpox, Father Phim (the local Roman Catholic priest) becomes her best friend, while Helen herself becomes a friend and then a defender of her grandfather's tenants, and the estate bailiff, Mr O'Rhea, becomes the object of her hatred. The story is set in the time of the Great Famine, and the hardships of the tenants' lives are a shock to Helen.

Her marriage may have been short-lived. By 9 October 1795 she was a widow with a young son to support. She had just suffered the alarm of his going through a smallpox attack, but he survived.

Among the pleasures of FB 's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages reflect her vivid apprehension of the world around her, and her ability to capture it in language: the sequence about her entry into the limelight as a published author; her accounts of Johnson and other famous figures; her moonlight conversation with the mad king after he had pursued her and she had run away; steady attendance at the trial of Warren Hastings ; the harrowing detail of her unanaethetized mastectomy; the turmoil of living in Brussels when the armies gathered before, and came back in broken fragments after, the battle of Waterloo. She is a perceptive delineator of people: in sketches of suitors both longed-for and unwanted—in which, however, discretion and reticence somewhat mute the story—of her husband's vegetable gardening, or her small son getting his inoculation for smallpox. She is, besides, equally skilled in rendering interiority: her early painting of scenes in which romantic interest is hinted or implied rather than expressed; the ups and downs of her whirlwind, bilingual, middle-aged courtship; the feelings with which, as an elderly wife, she watched from an upstairs window her beloved, also elderly husband mount his horse and ride off with the French monarchist army; and those with which she made her way, alone, among real, unpredictable dangers to join him.

At the age of sixteen CB survived an attack of smallpox, but the year after that she fell seriously ill again (having just been practising severe religious abstinence). She was ill for seven years, with all kinds of symptoms including giddiness, spots on the skin, stomach pains, failure of appetite, shaking fits, and, she says, her bones moving out of their proper places. Her account of the remedies used on her is painfully vivid: bitter potions, sweats, vomits, bleeding, and Spanish flies, as well as vinegar on her blisters. She recovered immediately when she vowed to become a nun, and found that, for instance, her previously rigid fingers were now pliable. She therefore attributed her cure to a miracle, and thought all I could do for God too little. It does not appear that she was ever ill again, unless perhaps trivially, until shortly before her death.

AC suffered a severe fever before the age of twelve, which seems to have brought on a tendency to excruciating headaches. These (probably migraine) recurred throughout her life, so often as to be almost permanent. Her all-round health, too, was fragile, and the medical treatments she underwent for her headaches sound in themselves enough to ensure ill-health. She went down with smallpox shortly after her only child died of it.

Elizabeth (Bessie) De la Beche Dillwyn , EAD 's mother, was moneyed and unconventional. She died in 1866 of smallpox.

Bror had originally bought them seven hundred acres of land only recently appropriated for development by white settlers. He then sold that and bought the four-and-a-half-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills in what is now Kenya, despite knowing nothing about growing coffee. They started with twelve hundred black field hands and six European managers. Their company was called the Swedo-African Coffee Company until it was incorporated as the Karen Coffee Company , backed by ID 's family. She became its effective manager. Her difficulties in running the operation included basic climatological ones (the land turned out to be a fraction too high for coffee and the soil too acidic), as well as a series of droughts and an outbreak of smallpox.

The child lived only fifteen days, and before those fifteen days were over Ann's husband had to part with her for the first time since their wedding, and leave for Bristol. She had a total of six sons and eight daughters borne and christned between this date and 6 August 1665. But deaths of children followed hard on births, and within about a year of her last childbirth there had been nine deaths: a few in infancy, but several others after surviving well into their childhood. ALF had also miscarried four times. One of her miscarriages followed the death of her then eldest son of smallpox, when she says she neglected her daughters, struck down by the same epidemic, to tend her son.

AW 's father, Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley Park, about four miles from Woodstock, Oxfordshire, died of smallpox before she was born. His family had connections with Elizabeth Cary (Lady Falkland) , Lucy Hutchinson , and Katherine Philips .

Politician, agriculturalist, and statistician Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster , first baronet (1754-1835), used to joke that he had six-and-thirty feet of daughters. This was a way of putting the the fact that all of his six daughters, including Catherine, were about six feet tall. In fact, the pathway outside the Sinclair home in Edinburgh, paved with enormous slabs of stone brought from the family home in Caithness, was colloquially called the Giants' Causeway. Sir John, immortalized in a Raeburn portrait, was well known for the pioneering work which resulted in The Statistical Account of Scotland, published in 1791-9. As Catherine Sinclair's great-niece Lucy Walford recollected, he was also known as a wonderful person, and many of his children, including Catherine, inherited his appealing temperament. However, as an amateur man of science Sir John insisted on carrying out himself the inoculation of several of his daughters for smallpox, only to be dismayed at the result—for some were marked for life—he urged upon the doctor to skin their faces, and was furious at a refusal.

MS contracted smallpox while visiting Paris; but she survived.