About Susannah Harrison
Lived 1752 – 1784 (aged 32). Susannah Harrison was a British hymnwriter, poet and writer.
Susannah Harrison (1752–1784), also known as Susanna Harrison, was an English working-class religious poet. Her 1780 collection Songs in the Night went through at least twenty-one editions in Britain and America, making it "one of the best selling collections written by a laboring-class poet in the late eighteenth century".
Harrison was a domestic servant who taught herself to read and write. Aged twenty, she suffered an illness from which she did not expect to survive and gave manuscripts of her poetry to John Conder, a Congregationalist Minister, who edited and published her poems for her. She died 3 August 1784 in Ipswich.
Works Songs in the Night, 1780
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Who was Susannah Harrison?
Harrison, Susannah (1752–1784), poet
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Susannah Harrison was born on 17 January 1752.
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Susannah Harrison died on 17 January 1784.
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Susannah Harrison was a hymnwriter, poet and writer.
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Susannah Harrison was British.
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