About Susan Linn De Witt
Lived 1778 – 1824 (aged 45–46). Susan Linn De Witt was an American poet and writer.
Susan Linn De Witt (October 30, 1778 – May 5, 1824)
She is the author of a widely praised book-length poem, The Pleasures of Religion (1820), as well as a novel, Justina (1823), about an American heroine educated in London who pressured into marriage but instead pines for another man who is compared to Samuel Johnson.
She is said to have been the author of a now-lost work called Father Rowland,
Susan Linn De Witt died on May 5, 1824 in Philadelphia.
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1778-1824 American poet
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