Sarah Trimmer

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Sarah Trimmer, painted by Henry Howard
Sarah Trimmer, painted by Thomas Lawrence

Sarah Trimmer (born January 6, 1741 in Ipswich , England , † December 15, 1810 in Brentford ) was an English author.

Life

Sarah Trimmer was the daughter of the landscape painter Joshua Kirby. In 1772 she married James Trimmer. She became the mother of twelve children. Inspired by raising her own children, she edited a number of biblical and moral books and Family Magazine (frequent topic: raising children).

Charles Lamb wrote a letter to Coleridge in 1802 about the literary qualities of Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Trimmer as authors of children's books: “May the devil fetch them [...]! These foolish women and their followers have made everything human in man and child rust and rot ... "

Works

  • The Guardian of Education
  • A Comment on Dr. Watts's Divine Songs for Children, with questions, etc.
  • An Abridgment of Scripture History ; consisting of lessons selected from the Old Testament
  • An attempt to familiarize the Catechism
  • A Concise History of England, comprised in a set of easy lessons
  • Help to the unlearned in the study of the Holy Scriptures : being an attempt to explain the Bible in a familiar way
  • Economy of charity ; or, an address to ladies
  • The robins . A book for children and children.

literature

  • Paul Hazard : Children, Books, and Tall People. Foreword by Erich Kästner. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1952.

Web links

Commons : Sarah Trimmer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Paul Hazard (1952: 55)
personal data
SURNAME Trimmer, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich , England
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1810
Place of death Brentford