Sarah Osborn

For the Salem witch trial victim, see Sarah Osborne.

Sarah Osborn (February 22, 1714 – August 2, 1796) was an American author.

Memoir

Sarah Osborn kept diaries all her life, but in 1773 she wrote a memoir describing her life and childhood. Religion played a crucial role in her life. Sarah Osborn’s religious inspiration came from the Great Awakening. for years Osborn struggled with her religion and faith, but eventually she found her faith through the great awakening that was spreading throughout America. She used her faith as a path to follow through life. Throughout her life Osborn struggled with her parents and even contemplated suicide. She credits God for saving her life.

References

Gould, Phillip. "Sarah Osborn." Mulford, Carla, Vietto, Angela, and Winans, Amy E., American women prose writers to 1820, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 200, Gale, 1999.

Brekus, Catherine. "Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America." [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013].

External links

Familiar Letters at Google Books
Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn, who died at Newport, Rhodeisland, on the second day of August, 1796. In the eighty third year of her age. / By Samuel Hopkins, D.D. Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport (1799) Online edition in the University of Oxford Text Archive

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