Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)

Contents:

  1. Personal and family information
    1. Personal information
    2. Family
  2. Domicile region and Migration
    1. Place of Birth (Town)
    2. Domicile Region
    3. Migration
  3. Social Information
    1. Social Class
    2. Social Mobility
    3. Occupation
  4. Education
    1. Formal
    2. Private
    3. Languages known
  5. Sources
  6. Notes
  7. Sent letters
  8. Received letters

Personal and family information

Personal information

Person ID SS
Sex Female
First Name Sarah
Last Name Robinson
Married name Scott
Spouse George Lewis Scott
Spouse's Rank Lower gentry
Spouse's Title Esquire
Year of Marriage 1751
Life span 75
Year of Birth 1720
Year of Death 1795

Family

Father Matthew Robinson [senior]
Father's Rank Lower Gentry
Father's Title Esquire
Mother Elizabeth Robinson née Drake

Domicile region and Migration

Place of Birth (Town)

Town York

Domicile Region

Address Town County Country From To Notes
- - Yorkshire England 1720 [1725]
West Layton Hall Wensleydale North Yorkshire England 1720 [1725]
Mount Morris - Kent England [1725] -

Migration

Address Town County Country From To Notes
Batheaston Bath Somerset England 1754 - 1
Leicester Square London Middlesex England 1751 1752 2
Kensington London Middlesex England - -
- Bath Somerset England [1752] [1785] 3
Catton Norwich Norfolk England 1787 1795 4

1 Sarah also had a close relationship with her sister, Elizabeth Montagu, and she spent long periods of times at Elizabeth's in Allerthorpe, London and Sandleford.

2 Sarah married George Lewis Scott in 1751 and they settled at Leicester Square, London, until due to unknown reasons Sarah was withdrawn from the household by her father and brothers. Lady Barbara Montagu also lived with them.

3 In 1748 already, Sarah had joined resources with Lady Barbara Montagu and lived with her in London and in Bath until Lady Barbara's death in 1765.

4 Sarah had problems with her health, and after finding relief to her headaches at a clinic in Norwich, she moved to Catton.

Social Information

Social Class

Rank Lower gentry
Title -
From 1720
To 1795

Social Mobility

Having suffered from small-pox, Sarah's marriage value was diminished. In 1751, she married George Lewis Scott, who was not very wealthy. There was a semi-scandal after Sarah Scott was removed from the Scott household by her father and brothers for unknown reasons, which however could have been due to a bad marriage with George Lewis Scott or Sarah's relationship with Lady Barbara.

Occupation

Novelist and historian

Education

Formal

Institution -
Highest Degree -
From -
To -

Private

Privately/self-educated, interested in literature and politics. Sarah was also tutored by her step-grandfather, Dr Conyers Middleton, but probably to a lesser extent than Elizabeth Montagu.

Languages known

French, Italian, Latin

Sources

Bibliography IDs

Kelly, 2006; Day and Lynch, 2015; Climenson, 1906a; Pohl and Schellenberg, 2003; Kelly, 1995; Rizzo, 2003; Sairio, 2009

Notes

Sarah Scott née Robinson was an author and published a total of six novels, of which perhaps her most known work was "Millenium Hall", published in 1762. "Millenium Hall" was a "feminist utopian novel", where women lived and worked together, being in control of their lodgings, which according to Kelly (1995) was a contribution to not only social and cultural criticism, but also to political economy and politics and experimental literary forms. The women in "Millenium Hall" also had the means to run benevolent enterprises for disadvantaged women. "Millenium Hall" had also clear connections to the Bluestocking society, and Miegon (2003) calls the work "a manifesto of Bluestocking feminism incorporating an idealized and feminist model of gentry capitalism and a critique of courtly culture". Sarah with her dear friend Lady Barbara Montagu, with whom she also lived, organized "work-for-welfare" for poor women (Kelly, 1995). Sarah even tried to recreate the ideal of the "Millenium Hall", establishing a similar housing in Hitcham in Buckinghamshire, at her cousin Grace Freind née Robinson's estate, an experiment which however failed fairly quickly.

Sent letters

No letters

Received letters

Letter ID Year From To
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_4 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_5 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1740_EMONTAGU_SS_6 1740 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1741_EMONTAGU_SS 1741 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1748_EMONTAGU_SS 1748 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1749_EMONTAGU_SS 1749 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1750_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1750 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1750_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1750 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1758_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1758 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1758_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1758 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1758_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1758 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1759_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1759 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1759_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1759 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_175x_EMONTAGU_SS 175x Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1760_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1760 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1760_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1760 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1760_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1760 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1761_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1761 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1761_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1761 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1767_EMONTAGU_SS 1767 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1768_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1768 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1768_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1768 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1768_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1768 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1768_EMONTAGU_SS_4 1768 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1768_EMONTAGU_SS_5 1768 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1775_EMONTAGU_SS 1775 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1776_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1776 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1776_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1776 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1776_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1776 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1782_EMONTAGU_SS 1782 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1785_EMONTAGU_SS 1785 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1786_EMONTAGU_SS_1 1786 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1786_EMONTAGU_SS_2 1786 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1786_EMONTAGU_SS_3 1786 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)
BC_1790_EMONTAGU_SS 1790 Montagu, Elizabeth (née Robinson) Scott, Sarah (née Robinson)