Sarah Piers

Background

Her father was originally of Roydon in Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Matthew Roydon and wife of Sir George Piers (1670–1720), a Kentish army captain and Clerk of the Privy Seal.

Career

She had two sons, one of whom died in childhood. Manley satirised both writers, in the second volume of The New Atalantis (1709), as part of a "cabal" of women who carried their friendships "beyond with Nature design"d" (Greer 445). In an untitled poem published in 1708, Piers praises the virtue of the female community at Tunbridge Wells.

In her last known work, George for Britain, she championed the monarchy over republicanism.

Connections

friendship:

An Anthology

Friend:

Nine Muses