Sarah Trimmer [née Kirby]

(1741-1810)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Trimmer, Mrs. (Sarah), 1741-1810 NRA: Trimmer Sarah (1741-1810) nee Kirby Author DNB: Trimmer [née Kirby], Sarah (1741–1810), author and educationist LBT ID: SaTrimm1810 VIAF ID: 32131125 LOC ID: n85145327	B/BAP: 1741-01-06 DIED: 1810-12-15
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The daughter of the artist Joshua Kirby, she married James Trimmer in 1762 and became a prolific writer of devotional works, educational tracts, and books for children.
REFERENCES TO Sarah Trimmer [née Kirby]: Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, [November 1787] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 October 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 3