A prominent writer and an abolitionist in her youth, Sarah Wister (1835-1908) was the author of Worthy Women of Our First Century (co-edited with Agnes Irwin, the first dean of Radcliffe College), The Tiber and the Thames; Their Associations, Past and Present, and Walter S. Newhall: A Memoir. She was the grand-daugther of the British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble and the mother of the author Owen Wister.
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