Sara PRINSEP (1816

Events in Sara PRINSEP (1816 - 1887)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
		Married Thoby PRINSEP		had 4 children
1816		Sara PRINSEP was born
1845	29	Death of father James PATTLE (aged 70)		Note 1
1845	29	Death of mother Adeline PATTLE (aged 52)		Note 2
1887	71	Sara PRINSEP died

Note 1: family lore: "he was packed off home in a cask of spirits, which cask, exploding, ejected his unbottled corpse before his widow's eyes, drove her out of her wits, set the ship on fire and stranded it in Hooghly"(Bell 14)

Note 2: died on ship back to England with husband's corpse

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
-had 4 children

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-described as "charming and eccentric" (Bell 15)
-She was "both charming and eccentric. Meals were oddly timed and oddly disposed. There was something outlandishly charming, something free and easy about Little Holland House" (Bell 15)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-settled in Little Holland House where she ran a salon and "entertained aristocracy of intellect. Tennyson, Sir Henry Taylor, Thackeray and his daughters..." (Bell 15)
-husband Thoby Prinsep was "an Anglo-Indian administrator of some eminence who was, until its dissolution, a member of the Council of the East Indian Company" (Bell 15)
-closest to sister Julia, with whom she had moved to England (Lee 89)

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ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 15 (Name, Notes)

2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996

- Reference = 89 (Name, Notes)

7. Type: Book, Abbr: Virginia Woolf A to Z, Title: Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception, Auth: Mark Hussey, Publ: Facts on File, Inc., Date: 1995

- Reference = 213 (Name, Notes)

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