Introduction

Biography

Susanna was the daugh­ter of Will­ard Al­drich and Lu­cy Sa­vage Morse.

She showed a li­ter­ary bent at an ear­ly age, though her stu­dies were in­ter­rupt­ed by a se­vere ill­ness last­ing for years. A vic­tim to in­som­nia, she al­ways kept a pa­per and pen­cil with­in reach to jot down words that came to her.

Encouraged by her pas­tor, J. C. Web­ster (one of the di­rect­ors of the aca­de­my she at­tend­ed) she of­fered some of her com­po­si­tions to a ma­ga­zine, which pub­lished them. For many years she con­trib­ut­ed both prose and po­et­ry to a num­ber of pap­ers and ma­ga­zines.

She moved to Rox­bu­ry, Mas­sa­chu­setts, in 1879.