Author: REVELL, Sarah
Biography:
REVELL, Sarah (1794-1872: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 16 April 1794, the third daughter of George Revell and his second wife Mary Oliver, who had married at St. Peter, Sudbury, on 20 Oct. 1789. The daughters were baptised in his parish church of St. Margaret, Lothbury, City of London: Mary 1790, Ann 1792, Sarah 1794. He died in 1823 with a will dated 1810 leaving £250 to his wife but she had predeceased him in 1820 so his estate will have gone to Mary and the other two daughters. This almost certainly explains why in the 1851 Census Mary and Sarah are living together at King Street, Sudbury, of independent means and with two servants. Mary died in 1853 and Sarah then moved to the Blackheath area on the outskirts of London, first at the Gardener’s Cottage, Kidbrooke (1861) and then, in old age, as a boarder at Blackheath Park (1871). She died there on 25 Nov. 1872. She contributed to various publications of George Williams Fulcher, the Sudbury poet and printer, from 1825. She also published a series of undistinguished tales for younger readers. Her first volume Gideon and Other Poems 1829) is the usual biblical fare but her second volume, Five Worlds of Enjoyment, and Other Poems (1847), is more accomplished. She may also have been the editor of two anthologies by "S. R." published in Ipswich: School-Room Lyrics; or Poetry for the Young (1846) and School-Room Poetry (1860). (ancestry.co.uk 13 Oct. 2020; Copsey 1, 406; Suffolk Chronicle 15 Apr. 1820; Ipswich Journal 11 Oct. 1823, 30 Nov. 1872) AA