She was the daughter of John Wright, esq; attorney-general of Jamaica, and married first to Elias Deritt.
She was at the time a wealthy widow with a salon that gathered a large net of influential people in from the political, cultural, scientific and merchant world.
Sarah Wright was a jacobite, and worked for reinstating the Stuart dynasty on the British throne.
Carl Gyllenborg was implicated in an attempted coup planned by Wright, placed in house arrest and expelled: his part in the affair is unknown.
In 1734, when the sexual relationship between Hedvig Taube and King Frederick I of Sweden was publicly recognised after the birth of a son, Taube was initially socially boycotted when the female members of the aristocracy refused to pay her visits.