Lady Florentia Sale [née Wynch]

(1790-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sale, Florentia Wynch, Lady, 1790-1853 NRA: Sale Florentia (1790-1853) Lady Sale DNB: Wynch [Florentia Sale (1790-1853)], Florentia LBT ID: FlSale1853 VIAF ID: 40842369 LOC ID: n85386661	B/BAP: 1790 DIED: 1853-07-06
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Wife of Sir Robert Henry Sale, whom she married in 1809; she published Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan (1843) in which she recounts the defeat in which she was wounded and taken hostage.
REFERENCES TO Lady Florentia Sale [née Wynch]: Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 19 April 1843 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXVI. Found 1: ¶ 49