Harrison Susannah

Title

Harrison Susannah

Identifier

LC 2, 375-86

Coverage

Ipswitch

Birth Date

1752

First Name

Susannah

Last Name

Harrison

Bibliography

Fullard, 414-18, 557; Landry; DNB; Jackson (1993), 145-7; Cranbrook, 202-3; Backscheider, 407; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 876

Occupation

Domestic servant from sixteen, then taught herself to read and write, permanent invalid from 1772, religious poet

Death Date

1784

Publications

Songs in the Night; By a Young Woman under Deep Afflictions, ed. John Conder (London, 1780), at least fifteen UK and six US editions by the 1820s, also pub. a broadside, A Call to Britain

OED DNB

Yes

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