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Author: Medley, Sarah

Biography:

MEDLEY, Sarah (c. 1771-1834: Liverpool Albion)

Her age at death was reported as either 63 or 66, whence the uncertainty about her birthdate in the absence of a certificate of birth or baptism. She was one of four children of Mary (Gill) and Samuel Medley (q.v.); her father was an eminent Baptist minister in Liverpool. The details of her education are not known but she found a niche for herself as an unmarried poet and travel writer with Original Poems (1807), a “new poetical guide” to The Beauties of Leamington Priors (1813), and a Descriptive Guide to Leamington Spa, Warwick, and the Adjacent Towns and Villages in prose (1826). She also prepared an expanded edition of her brother’s Memoirs of their father in 1833. In 1806 she was living at Runcorn, Cheshire, not far from Liverpool; she later moved to Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, but returned to Liverpool after 1826. She died on 25 July 1834 of head injuries sustained in a freak accident when attendants lost control of her bath chair and she was thrown out. The probate of her will reveals an estate of under £100. (Liverpool Albion 28 Jul. 1834; Liverpool Mercury 1 Aug. 1834; findmypast.com 14 May 2023; Benjamin Colbert, “Sarah Medley,” British Travel Writing, btw.wlv.ac.uk) 

 

Other Names:

  • S. Medley
 

Books written (2):

Liverpool/ London: W. Robinson, the booksellers/ J. Johnson, 1807