Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), Evangelist and children's writer
Sitter in 5 portraits
Author of instructive and moralising literature for children, Trimmer was a household name at the end of the eighteenth century. Inspired by educating her own twelve children, she published a series of biblical, moral and practical primers. She was deeply suspicious of imaginative literature, like fairy tales, and provided her own corrective in works such as Fabulous Histories; or A History of the Robins (1786), which was a popular success.
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, circa 1790
On display in Room 20 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5498
by Henry Howard
oil on canvas, exhibited 1798
NPG 796
by Richard James Lane, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, after Henry Howard
lithograph, published September 1830
NPG D21830
by Henry Meyer, published by Francis Rivington, published by Charles Rivington, published by John Rivington, after Henry Howard
stipple engraving, published 1 March 1814
NPG D14966
by and published by Charles Turner, after Henry Howard
mezzotint, published 9 March 1815
NPG D15820
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Religion and Belief
Groups
Children's writers and illustrators
Regency Tories
Women writers
Writers and critics
Place
Suffolk
