John Austin

Soon after SA 's marriage to John Austin in 1819 his career began to fail, and she became a translator to support her family.

After SA 's husband 's death in 1859, she wrote a preface for his The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1861). This was later reprinted in her edited version of his Lectures on Jurisprudence; or, The...

This book includes portraits. Lotte and Joseph Hamburger 's Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin appeared in 1985 followed by their Contemplating Adultery: The Secret Life of a Victorian Woman in 1991. This second work...

Sarah Taylor married John Austin at St George's, Colegate, Norfolk.

In 1814, the engagement between Sarah Taylor and John Austin was sanctioned by her parents after considerable opposition.John Austin might have seemed unsuitable because of his service in the army and the...

John Austin was called to the bar in 1818, following which he began to practice.

On 24 June 1821, Lucie Austin (the future writer Lady Duff Gordon) was born to SA and John Austin . She was their only child. Financial uncertainty prevented them from increasing their family. As her...

John Austin experienced various humiliations and disappointments in his career, because he was ineffective as a lecturer and in his political roles. In addition, he suffered from several illnesses, including manic depressive disorder, that...

John Austin was a pupil of Bentham , and intimate with all the friends of his master. They had met well before his marriage. At first he completely embraced Bentham's philosophies and political...

They moved there so that John Austin could study Roman Law in preparation for his lectures as Professor of Jurisprudence.

Her husband, John Austin , died on 17 December 1859. He had been hardly known during his lifetime, outside the couple's small gathering of acquaintances. SA 's success was the foundation of his posthumous reputation.

Lucie Austin (later LDG ), only child of Sarah and John Austin , was born at the then 1 Queen Square in London.

Facing financial retrenchment after John Austin resigned from his teaching job, the parents of Lucie Austin (later LDG ) moved with her from their house in Queen Square to 26 Park Road in Regent's Park.

After her father 's death in this year, LDG suffered a violent lung haemorrhage, an event she rightly believed to be a symptom of tuberculosis.

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...