| Sarah Hoare | |
| Birth Name: | Sarah Hoare |
| Birth Place: | Bristol |
| Death Place: | Bath |
| Occupation: | Writer, artist |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | British |
| Citizenship: | British |
| Genres: | Poetry, biography |
| Subjects: | Nature, Samuel Hoare Jr. |
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Sarah Hoare (1777–1856) was a British writer and artist known for her scientific poetry.
Hoare was born on 7 July 1777 in Old Broad Street in the parish of St Peter le Poer, London to Samuel and Sarah (née Gurney) Hoare.[1]
In 1831, she wrote and illustrated Poems on Conchology and Botany. Hoare's book is an early example of a female Victorian author using observations and scientifically based research to inform her writing. Hoare's poems are a rare example of a collection based on conchology.[2] It has been argued that Hoare and her contemporaries were influenced by the writings of Erasmus Darwin and in particular by his poem The Loves of Plants.[3] Hoare was also an artist. The National Portrait Gallery holds a portrait of her father Samuel Hoare based on an original work by her.[4]
She died in Bath in 1856.[5] Hoare wrote a memoir of her father's life which was published posthumously in 1911.