Susanna Moodie



Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author/poet who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.

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 * Oh ye! who all life's energies combine The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine, Pause but one moment in your brief career, Nor seek for glory in a mortal sphere.
 * From her poem Fame in Enthusiasm and Other Poems Smith, Elder and Co London 1831