John Austin

He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham through his father. He also associated with John Austin and George Grote .

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...

John Austin , Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...

In Bonn, LDG 's father studied Roman Law under Niebuhr and Schlegel in preparation for his upcoming appointment as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of London .

Their marriage was delayed for a while because the Dowager Lady Duff Gordon was opposed to Lucie as a match for her son since she lacked a dowry. Lucie's father , who was by that...

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.

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...