Susannah Heath Explained

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Susannah or Susan Heath (–) was an American diarist.

Susannah Heath was born on, one of ten children of Ebenezer Heath and Hannah Williams Heath. The family lived in what is today called the Ebenezer Heath House in Brookline, Massachusetts.^[1]

Heath kept a 61-volume diary between 1812 and 1874. The diary is now owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society.^[2] The diary has been frequently cited in historical studies of diverse topics including Heath's contempt for her father,^[3] meeting the Marquis de Lafayette,^[4] Dorothea Dix,^[5] the medicinal use of arsenic,^[6] and indoor plumbing.^[7]

In 1813, Heath painted a watercolor landscape of the view of Boston from her home. Identifiable landmarks in the painting include the Massachusetts State House, the Worcester Turnpike, the Boston Neck, the Zabdiel Boylston House (demolished in 1863), the second building of the First Parish in Brookline, and the Great Elm on Boston Common.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Susannah Heath never married and died on 24 March 1878 in Brookline.

Notes and References

1. Book: Crafts . James . The Crafts family. A genealogical and biographical history of the descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft, of Roxbury, Mass. 1630-1890 . Crafts . William F. (William Francis) . 1893 . Northampton, Mass., Gazette printing company . Boston Public Library.
2. Web site: Heath Family Papers . Massachusetts Historical Society.
3. Book: Blauvelt, Martha Tomhave . The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780-1830 . 2007 . University of Virginia Press . 978-0-8139-2597-4 . en.
4. Book: McGovern, James R. . Yankee family . 1975 . New Orleans : Polyanthos . Boston Public Library.
5. Book: Brown, Thomas J. . Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer . 1998 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-21488-0 . en.
6. Book: Corrigan, John . Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century . 2002 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-22196-3 . en.
7. Ogle . Maureen . 1993 . Domestic Reform and American Household Plumbing, 1840-1870 . Winterthur Portfolio . 28 . 1 . 33–58 . 10.1086/496603 . 1181497 . 0084-0416.
8. Book: Dewhurst, C. Kurt . Artists in aprons : folk art by American women . 1979 . New York : Dutton . Internet Archive . 978-0-525-05857-1.
9. Book: Little, Nina Fletcher . Country arts in early American homes . 1975 . New York : Dutton . Internet Archive . 978-0-525-08680-2.
10. Book: Little, Nina Fletcher . Little by little : six decades of collecting American decorative arts . 1984 . New York : E.P. Dutton . Internet Archive . 978-0-525-24265-9.