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SARAH AUSTIN (1793-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 940 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUSTIN (1793-1867)  , See also:English author, was See also:born in 1793, the daughter of See also:John See also:Taylor (d . 1826), a See also:wool-stapler and a member of the well-known Taylor See also:family of See also:Norwich . Her See also:great grandfather, Dr John Taylor (1694-1761), had been pastor of the Presbyterian See also:church there, and wrote a once famous polemical See also:work on The Scripture See also:Doctrine of See also:Original See also:Sin (1738), which called forth celebrated See also:treatises by See also:Jonathan See also:Edwards on Original Sin . Her See also:mother, Susannah See also:Cook, was an exceedingly See also:clever woman who transmitted both her beauty and her See also:talent to her daughter . Their See also:friends included Dr Alderson and his daughter Mrs See also:Opie, See also:Henry See also:Crabbe See also:Robinson, the Gurneys and See also:Sir See also:James See also:Mackintosh . Sarah Taylor married in 1820 John See also:Austin (q.v.) . They lived in See also:Queen Square, See also:Westminster, where Mrs . Austin, whose tastes, unlike her See also:husband's, were extremely sociable, gathered See also:round her a large circle, See also:Jeremy See also:Bentham, James See also:Mill and the Grotes being especially intimate . She received many See also:Italian exiles, who found a real friend in her . In 1821 was bornher only See also:child, Lucie, afterwards See also:Lady See also:Duff-See also:Gordon . Mrs . Austin never attempted any considerable original worlt, See also:con-tenting herself chiefly with See also:translations, of which the most important are the See also:History of the See also:Reformation in See also:Germany and the History of the Popes (184o), from the See also:German of See also:Leopold von See also:Ranke, See also:Report on the See also:State of Public Instruction in See also:Prussia (1834) from the See also:French of V .

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Cousin, and F . W . Carove's The See also:Story without an End (1864) . After her husband's See also:death in 1859 she edited his Lectures on See also:Jurisprudence . She also edited the See also:Memoirs of See also:Sydney See also:Smith (1855) and Lady Duff-Gordon's Letters from See also:Egypt (1865) . She died at See also:Weybridge on the 8th of See also:August 1867 . See Three Generations of Englishwomen (1888), by her See also:grand-daughter, Mrs See also:Janet See also:Ross .

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