Sarah Savage

Nicole Garret (Adelphi University)

Ed. by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 1664
Died 1752

Places

Active in England

Activities

Primary

Letter-writer/ Diarist

Resources

Savage's Works

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Sarah Savage (née Henry) was an English diarist from a prominent family of nonconformists. Savage’s spiritual diary, which she kept until 1745, is an important resource for scholars of English family life and nonconformist culture. Aside from the publication of excerpts in a nineteenth-century biography, Savage’s writing exists only in manuscripts chronicling her life from 1686-1745.

Born in Flintshire in 1664 to Philip Henry (1631-1696) and Katherine Henry née Matthews (1629-1707), Sarah was the eldest daughter of the Henry family. Her brother Matthew Henry, who would later become a popular Presbyterian minister, was born two years earlier in 1662. As a youth, Philip Henry had strong connections to the court of Charles I and supported the return of Charles II in 1660, but, because

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Citation: Garret, Nicole. "Sarah Savage". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 June 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14011, accessed 03 December 2024.]