Sarah Elwes

(1755 c.-1817)

LBT ID: SaElwes1817	B/BAP: 1755 DIED: 1817-12-26
SOURCES: European Magazine (January 1818) 75; William Godwin Diary (web)
In 1789 she married John Elwes (d. 1817, son of the miser), who divorced her in a 1796 crim. con. case. A friend of William Godwin, she was convicted of adultery with men names Egerton and Hervey.
REFERENCES TO Sarah Elwes: William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XIII. 1800