Susannah Harrison [SEP] date of birth
Susannah Harrison
Susannah Harrison (1752–1784) 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 Condor
, Channel Islands. Amelia was a first cousin of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. The children of Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Cameron and Amelia Brock are:
- Amelia Susannah Brock Cameron (1805–1883)
- Anne Alicia Cameron (7 Sep 1805 - 13 February 1852), who married the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry, rector at St Mary's Parish Church in Burghfield, Berkshire and died after giving birth to her 15th issue.
- General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, GCB, (20 May 1808 - 8 June