Elizabeth Sandford

Elizabeth Sandford, born Elizabeth Gabriel Poole, who wrote as Mrs John Sandford (1797/8 – 15 September 1853) was a British domestic moralist. She wrote advice books for women to help them with their domestic and secondary role to men.

Life Sandford was born in 1797 or 1798, her father was Richard J. Poole of Sherbourne and it was specifically aimed at women readers. The book sold well.

She had married John Sandford the recently ordained chaplain to the marquess of Queensberry on 23 August 1825 at Wells in Somerset. Her new husband was her second cousin, and her sister Ethel Maria Ruscombe Poole married Henry Poole's brother, Ernest Grey Sandford.

Elizabeth Sandford became a notable author of tracts on domestic morality. Her husband became the to vicarage of Chillingham in Northumberland in 1827, the chaplain of Long Acre, London, and the rector of Dunchurch in 1836.