Background
She was the daughter of John Wright, esq. Attorney-general of Jamaica, and married first to Elias Deritt.
She was the daughter of John Wright, esq. Attorney-general of Jamaica, and married first to Elias Deritt.
She was known as a Tory Sympathiser. She was at the time a wealthy widow with a salon that gathered a large Netto of influential people in from the political, cultural, scientific and merchant world. Sarah Wright was a jacobite, and worked for reinstating the Stuart dynasty on the British throne.
Carl Gyllenborg was implicated in an attempted coup planned by Wright, placed in house arrest and expelled: his part in the affair is unknown.
After his return to Sweden, he financed his political career with his spouse"s money. Sarah Wright participated in the political life also in Sweden, and are mentioned alongside Hedvig Catharina Lillie as examples of the politically active women in Sweden during the age of liberty.
During the visit, they asked for favours from the monarch through Taube, which broke the boycott and started the political position of Taube as an intermediary.
In 1734, when the sexual relationship between Hedvig Taube and King Frederick I of Sweden was publicly recognised after the birth of a son, Taube was initially socially boycotted when the female members of the aristocracy refused to pay her visits.
