Sara Austen [née Rickett]

(1796 c.-1888)

LBT ID: SaAuste1888	B/BAP: 1796 DIED: 1888
SOURCES: Quarterly Review (January 1889) 9; Julie Sheldon, ed. The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (2009) 186n; familysearch.org
After marrying the solicitor Benjamin Austen in 1816 she became an early friend of Benjamin Disraeli; she was a watercolorist and collector.
REFERENCES TO Sara Austen [née Rickett]: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 18 April 1841 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 2 May 1841 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 4 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XVI Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 R. Plumer Ward XX Laman Blanchard VIII Found 1: ¶ 4