Sarah Austin

01 April 1793 - 08 August 1867

Standard Name: Austin, Sarah

Birth Name: Sarah Taylor

Nickname: Sally

Married Name: Sarah Austin

Used Form: Mrs Austin

Sarah Austin was primarily known as a translator of weighty books, but was also an editor and an author of works on female education and German intellectual history. From the 1820s to the 1850s she translated at least sixteen works and edited and wrote several others.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Lucie Duff Gordon	Lucie Duff Gordon 's Letters from the Cape were included in Francis Galton 's anthology Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3; her mother, Sarah Austin , again provided a brief introduction. Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-22. 119-20 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1917 (1864): 104
Birth	Lucie Duff Gordon	Lucie Austin (later LDG ), only child of Sarah and John Austin , was born at the then 1 Queen Square in London. This part of the square was later replaced by what is now Queen Anne's Gate. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 13-14
Cultural formation	Lucie Duff Gordon	Presumably white, LDG grew up in a radical liberal, professional family of English descent. Both her parents were highly intellectual and prominent in political circles, and both were published authors. Her mother brought her up...
Education	Amelia Opie	AO is said to have had little formal education. She was, however, trained in charitable activity on the one hand, and on the other she learned French and was encouraged in her literary interests and...
Education	Lucie Duff Gordon	Her mother voiced some anxiety about Lucie's development. The child had grown very tall, and, Sarah Austin said, though she has admirable qualities, I am not satisfied with her. She is too wild, undisciplined, and...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lucie Duff Gordon	LDG endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau 's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lucie Duff Gordon	LDG 's mother, born Sarah Taylor , was a writer and translator from a family of prominent dissenters living in Norwich. At times the sole provider for her husband and daughter, she also gave...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lucie Duff Gordon	Her husband, Alick, whom she met at Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, was an impoverished baronet who was a clerk in the Treasury. LDG 's mother wrote of him: Alexander has nothing but...
Friends, Associates	Lucy Aikin	The Rev. Dr Samuel Cooper (husband of the novelist Maria Susanna Cooper ) also knew LA when she was a girl. He thought her very intelligent and preferred to talk to her at a party...
Friends, Associates	Harriet Taylor	At HT 's request Mill ended his friendships with Sarah Austin and Harriet Grote . He rekindled these acquaintances after her death. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 137
Friends, Associates	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Pupils who acknowledged her influence included Thomas Denman , who later drafted the 1832 Reform Act. Friends from this period of her life included Susannah Taylor (mother of the translator and editor Sarah Austin ). McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 231
Friends, Associates	Mary Berry	Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
Friends, Associates	Maria Callcott	During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC ) met Jane Marcet and the publisher John Murray . Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937. 153-4, 166 Then or later...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Sewell	She was too shy to move in literary circles, though she did meet several writers who called on her, including Sarah Austin and Sir Charles Trevelyan . With each of them she felt uncomfortable, as...
Friends, Associates	Maria Callcott	Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox (with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the...

Timeline

22 March 1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died at Weimar in Germany in his early eighties.

Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.

Late August 1833

An English ship, the Amphitrite, carrying women convicts for transportation in New South Wales, ran aground off the coast of northern France, near Boulogne. There were only four survivors among the 131 people on board.

“Shipwreck Broadsides”. Simply Australia: The Vault: Issue 11.

By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Saturday Review. Chawton.

28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3

Texts

Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de. A History of the Fall of the Roman Empire. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834, 2 vols.

Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de. A History of the Italian Republics. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832.

Holland, Saba, Lady. A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. Editor Austin, Sarah, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854.

Austin, Sarah. A Vocabulary, English and Spanish. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von et al. Characteristics of Goethe. Translator Austin, Sarah, Effingham Wilson, 1833, 3 vols.

Raumer, Friedrich von. England in 1835. Translators Austin, Sarah and Hannibal Evans Lloyd, John Murray, 1836.

Fragments from German Prose Writers. Translator Austin, Sarah, John Murray, 1841.

Austin, Sarah. Germany, from 1760 to 1814. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854.

Ranke, Leopold von. History of the Reformation in Germany. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1847, 3 vols.

Austin, Sarah, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Introduction”. Letters from the Cape, Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-20.

Taylor, Edgar. Lays of the Minnesingers. Translator Austin, Sarah, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825.

Duff Gordon, Lucie. Letters from Egypt, 1863-65. Editor Austin, Sarah, Macmillan, 1865.

Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119-22.

Austin, Sarah. Life of Carsten Niebuhr. Baldwin and Cradock, 1833.

Austin, Sarah. On National Education. John Murray, 1839.

Austin, John, 1613 - 1669. “Preface”. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, edited by Sarah Austin, John Murray, 1861.

Duff Gordon, Lucie. “Preface”. Letters From Egypt, 1863-65, edited by Sarah Austin, Macmillan, 1865, p. v - xii.

Cousin, Victor. Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia. Translator Austin, Sarah, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

Austin, Sarah. Selections from the Old Testament. Effingham Wilson, 1833.

Niebuhr, Barthold. Stories of the Gods and Heroes of Greece. Editor Austin, Sarah, Translator Duff Gordon, Lucie, John W. Parker, 1843.

Harcourt, Jeanne Paule Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire, marquise d’. The Duchess of Orleans. Translator Austin, Sarah, W. Jeffs, 1859.

Ranke, Leopold von. The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translator Austin, Sarah, John Murray, 1840, 3 vols.

Pückler-Muskau, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von. Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1828 & 1829. Translator Austin, Sarah, Effingham Wilson, 1832, 2 vols.

Austin, Sarah. Two Letters on Girls’ Schools, and on the Training of Working Women. Chapman and Hall, 1857.