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Sarah Pogson

Sarah Pogson was an English novelist, short story writer and poet. Her works mainly detail feminism, American republicanism, and religion.

She was born in Essex, England on September 17th, 1774 where she attended school in Hampton. She was encouraged to move to the United States by her brother, Milward Pogson, where she settled in Charleston, South Carolina. Pogson began writing, publishing her first work, a play titled The Female Enthusiast: A Tragedy, in Five Acts by a Lady along with a long poem, “Gratitude,” in 1807.She moved to New York where she was married to Peter Smith which later failed in 1826, the same year when she wrote and sold her collection of poems, Daughters of Eve, to the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb through the New York Female Association, a women’s charity established to aide the school. She spent a lot of her time traveling, but never returned to England. She passed away on July 29th, 1870 where she was buried at Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church Cemetery in Charleston.

Her most well known work, The Female Enthusiast, focused on the dangers impacting American republicanism by speaking of the impact of the French revolution on French republicanism namely the assassination of Paul Marat.

She died on the 29th of July, 1870.