Sarah Egerton was an English actress. The judgement of William Macready was that "her merits were confined to melodrama." Wikipedia
“We will our Rights in Learning's World maintain,
Wit's Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign.”
Source: The Emulation http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation (1703), Lines 32–33
“From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,
Poor Womankind's in every State, a Slave.”
Source: The Emulation http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation (1703), Lines 3–4
