Ideala

1854? – 1943

Sarah Grand was born Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke in Rosebank House, Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland of English parents. Her father died in 1862, whereupon her mother took Grand and her siblings back to Bridlington, England to be near her family. In 1868 Grand was sent to the Royal Naval School, Twickenham, but was soon expelled for organizing groups that supported Josephine Butler's protests against the Contagious Diseases Act, which persecuted prostitutes as infected women, as the sole cause of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Grand was then sent to a finishing school in Kensington, London. In August 1870, at the age of sixteen, she married widowed Army s…