Sarah Chapone
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Standard Name: Chapone, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Kirkham
Married Name: Sarah Chapone
Pseudonym: Sappho
Pseudonym: Varanese
Pseudonym: A Lady
feminist, analysis. Her topics are the law, women's history (at one remove), and conventions around sexual behaviour. Her private letters, too, often touch on women's issues.
was not only an active networker in the cause of women during the earlier half of the eighteenth century; she also published two works (both hard to categorise because of their originality and their remoteness from generic expectations) which show remarkable Timeline
Texts
Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, 2018, pp. 1-16.
Chapone, Sarah. Remarks on Mrs. Muilman’s Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield. William Owen and James Leake, 1750.
Chapone, Sarah. The Hardships of the English Laws in relation to Wives. J. Roberts, 1735.