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 Anna Brownell Jameson
Also among ABJ 's friends at this time were Jane Carlyle , Sarah Austin , Harriet Grote , and Harriet Martineau .
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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, pp. 119-22.
119-20
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1917 (1864): 104

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