Sarah Austin

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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.
Head-and-shoulders painting of Sarah Austin by Lady Arthur Russell, c. 1867. She is leaning sideways in a red chair, wearing a white cap with lappets hanging down on each side, and a simple black dress with white collar. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence Lucie Duff Gordon
Her mother, Sarah Austin , edited the work (as the cover proclaims) and wrote a preface. She thus chaperoned her daughter into the literary world.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
122
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Literary responses Lucie Duff Gordon
In a brief introductory note to the text, Sarah Austin sought both to endorse and apologize for her daughter's writing. Reminding the reader that the letters were not intended for publication, she noted that they...
names Ann Martin Taylor
  • BirthName: Ann Martin
  • Married: Taylor
  • Indexed: Mrs. Taylor of Ongar
    This description is used in many reference sources to distinguish her from Sarah Taylor of Norwich (mother of Sarah Austin ).
Publishing Harriet Taylor
HT 's reviews include an appraisal of Sarah Austin 's translation Tour of a German Prince, which appeared in May 1832.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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A harsh review of Frances Trollope 's Domestic Manners of the...
Textual Features Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG 's letters cover all kinds of topics from Egyptian history and religion to Arab customs and habits. In May 1863 she writes to her mother : One must come to the East to...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
She ranges through much of literary history, paying attention to figures such as Anna Seward and Mrs John Taylor (mother of Sarah Austin ) as well as men like Charles Dickens . Among her non-literary...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and The Lowell Offering, as well...

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