William Ellis

SSE died one week after her husband , at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire.

She most likely died from catching the same illness that William had died from.

Sarah Stickney married author, missionary, and widower William Ellis at a small church in Burstwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The London Missionary Society commissioned SSE 's husband, William Ellis , to travel to Madagascar, where a campaign against British Christian missionaries was producing hundreds of grisly deaths.

William Ellis , born into the labouring class, was a self-educated man of high attainments. He had worked as a foreign missionary with the London Missionary Society in Tahiti and Hawaii. In 1830 he...

William Ellis had published Polynesian Researches in 1829, which, with his History of Madagascar, 1838, constitute early attempts at ethnography. They were significantly influenced by his role as a missionary, which was in turn...

After four years in London, SSE and husband moved to Rosehill in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, a spacious house and grounds which they rented.

Two years later, William Ellis began another religious publication, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, whose title was an answer to another popular gift-book, The Keepsake.Sarah Stickney contributed to it...

Under her unmarried name, Sarah Stickney (later Ellis) , published a story called The Young Hindoo in an annual edited by her future husband .

William Ellis planned to publish the History of Madagascar by this date; his wife and uncredited co-author SSE anticipated write, write, writing for the next four months to come.

Although writing about Madagascar was understood as primarily the undertaking of SSE 's husband , she performed a great deal of the composition and editing of this work, especially when he began to suffer health...