Sarah Ann Jenyns

Sarah Ann Jenyns (1865–1952) founded the Jenyns Patent Corset Pty Co with her husband Ebenezer Randolphus Jenyns (1865–1958) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1909. The business manufactured surgical instruments and pioneered surgical and aesthetic corsets for women, becoming one of the leading undergarment companies in the country and survived for more than 50 years.

History Sarah Ann Thompson was born on 1 March 1865 in Largs, New South Wales, to Mary Thompson, née Bluford, and her Scottish husband Charles Thompson. She married Ebenezer Randolph Jenyns on 5 October 1887.

Sarah, a trained nurse, married Ebenezer Randolph Jenyns, a surgical instrument maker and evangelical preacher on 5 October 1887 at the Burton Street Tabernacle, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. They settled in Brisbane in 1896. They had eight children and little money. Sarah felt a sharp pain one day when she bent over to lift a pail, and found that placing a pad inside her corset fixed the problem—except as soon as she moved, the pad dislodged and the pain returned.