Sarah Frances Alleyne (15 October 1836 – 16 August 1884)[1][2] was a British promoter of women's education, poet,[3] and translator.
[2] Charles Alleyne was a plantation owner in Barbados, and the family's substantial wealth was built on the labour of enslaved people.
[2] When Charles Thomas Alleyne died in 1872, she remained in the family home in Clifton, supported by a private income.
Alleyne had been in the process of translating Zeller's Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy, which was completed by classical scholar Evelyn Abbott.
Few were ever brought in contact with her without feeling that there was in her a latent power which raised her above the ordinary type of womanhood, though womanly in every thought and kindly deed.
Her intellectual gifts were certainly of a high order, and her achievements in literature, as the translator of Zeller’s works from the German, attracted the notice of several distinguished scholars...