A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Austin, Sarah

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AUSTIN, SARAH,

Belongs to a family of literary celebrity—the Taylors of Norwich. She is perhaps better acquainted with German literature than any living writer, not a native of Germany. She is also a good classical scholar, and generally accomplished. Her translations are numerous and successful: among them are "Ranke's History of the Popes," and "History of the Reformation." Her "Fragments from the German Prose Writers, illustrated with Biographical Notes" has attained considerable popularity, and gone through several editions.