Sarah Lord Bailey

{{Short description|British-born American elocutionist and teacher of dramatic elocution}}

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| name = Sarah Lord Bailey Sanborn

| image = SARA LORD BAILEY.jpg

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| caption = "A Woman of the Century"

| birth_name = Sarah Lord

| birth_date = September 9, 1856

| birth_place = Tottington, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England

| death_date = July 9, 1922

| death_place = Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.

| nationality =

| other_names = Sarah Lord Sanborn

| occupation = {{hlist|elocutionist|teacher of dramatic elocution}}

| years_active =

| known_for =

| notable_works = Work and Art, 1898

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Sarah Lord Bailey ({{nee}}, Lord; after first marriage, Bailey; after second marriage, Sanborn; September 9, 1856 – July 9, 1922) was a British-born American elocutionist and teacher of dramatic elocution.{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Sarah_Lord_Bailey |year=1893 |pages=45–46 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |chapter=BAILEY, Mrs. Sara Lord}} {{Source-attribution}}

Biography

Sarah Lord was born in Tottington, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, England, 9 September 1856. She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lord, her parents bringing her to the U.S. the year following her birth and making their home in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Early in life, she showed a fondness and talent for dramatic elocution, and it was developed by her participation in amateur plays given in Lawrence under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic posts. She was educated in the Oliver grammar school, and the Lasell Seminary (now Lasell University), Auburndale, Massachusetts, where she studied two years. She afterwards studied under the best teachers of elocution in Boston, and was graduated in 1888 from the Boston School of Oratory. She was a pupil of Howard M. Ticknor.{{cite journal |title=READERS AND SINGERS. |journal=Werner's Voice Magazine |date=December 1891 |page=332 |volume=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-lDAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA332 |access-date=14 July 2022 |publisher=Edgar S. Werner |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}

File:Sarah Lord Bailey (Work and art, 1898).png

In Boston, August 23, 1877, she married Elbridge E. Bailey.{{cite web |title=Sarah Ellen Lord 1856 – 9 July 1922 • LLHR-V2L |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLHR-V2L |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=14 July 2022}} In 1883, to benefit Mr. Bailey's health, they went to the Sandwich Islands where they lived for nearly two years. They were present at the coronation ceremonies of King Kalākaua and Queen Kapiʻolani in ʻIolani Palace, February 12, 1883.

In 1884, they returned to the U.S., and Mr. Bailey went into business in St. Louis, Missouri, where Mrs. Bailey taught elocution in the Missouri School for the Blind. They afterwards removed to Kansas City, Missouri where Mr. Bailey built up a flourishing business. For some time, Mrs. Bailey taught elocution and voice-culture in the Kansas City School of Elocution and Oratory.

She was obliged to return to Massachusetts on account of her failing health. In Lawrence, she conducted several large classes in elocution, besides fulfilling engagements to read in various cities.

In October 1891, she read at the Toronto Auditorium. In 1898, she published, Work and Art.{{cite book |last1=Bailey |first1=Sarah Lord |title=Work and art |date=1898 |location=Boston, Mass. |publisher=G. H. Walker & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/workandart00bailiala/page/n1 |access-date=14 July 2022}}

On May 11, 1901, she married Jack Sanborn.{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Mary Jessie |title=Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon David Batchelder of Hampton Falls, N.H., Born Jan. 13, 1736, Died Mar. 11, 1811 |date=1902 |publisher=Batchelder Reunion Assoc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXExAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63 |access-date=14 July 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}

Sarah Lord Bailey Sanborn died in Haverhill, Massachusetts, July 9, 1922 of stomach cancer.{{cite web |title=Film # 106153694 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34V-9S6W-K?cc=1463156&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6ZXH-7BRN |website=familysearch.org |access-date=14 July 2022}}