Sarah Rutledge
(1782-1855)
BIRTH
1782
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
DEATH
1855
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
MOTHER
Henrietta Middleton Rutledge
(1750-1792)
BROTHER
Henry Middleton Rutledge
(1775-1844)
BROTHER
Jackson Middleton Rutledge
(1777-1830)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Rutledge (1782–1855) was a Charleston woman credited with compiling The Carolina Housewife, first published anonymously in 1847 as the work of “A Lady of Charleston.” Daughter of Edward Rutledge and Henrietta Middleton, she collected hundreds of recipes reflecting Lowcountry household cookery. Later editions name her as author, despite the original anonymity. The book became a lasting source for the region’s nineteenth-century food traditions.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Rutledge was born in 1782, a daughter of Edward Rutledge and Henrietta Middleton Rutledge. The reviewed family and catalogue material establishes those relationships, but no reliable detailed account of her childhood, schooling, or early training was found.
The Carolina Housewife, a Charleston cookbook published in 1847 under the designation “a lady of Charleston,” is traditionally attributed to Sarah Rutledge. The Oxford catalogue describes the authorship as an attribution, so it should not be presented as unqualified proof. No reliable evidence of another professional appointment or public office was found in the reviewed material.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Rutledge died in 1855, in Charleston, South Carolina. Sarah Rutledge was a Charleston woman credited with compiling The Carolina Housewife, first published anonymously in 1847 as the work of “A Lady of Charleston.” Daughter of Edward Rutledge and Henrietta Middleton, she collected hundreds of recipes reflecting Lowcountry household cookery. Later editions name her as author, despite the original anonymity. The book became a lasting source for the region’s nineteenth-century food traditions. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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