Born: 7 September 1782, United Kingdom
Died: 5 November 1854
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman and Kate Ferrier on Susan Edmonstone Ferrier transcript
The following is excerpted from Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, a Scottish novelist, born in Edinburgh. She was an intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott and some of the most eminent literari [sic] of her day. Scott himself gave Miss Ferrier a high place among novelists of her time. In his diary (March 27, 1826), criticising a new work which he had been reading, he says, “The women do this better. Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen, have all given portraits of real society far superior to anything man, vain man, has produced of the like nature.”
Miss Ferrier wrote three novels: Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny, all vigorous and lively pictures of Scottish life and character, written in clear, brisk English, with an inexhaustible fund of humor.
The following is excerpted from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, written by John W. Cousins and published in 1929 by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
FERRIER, SUSAN EDMONSTOUNE (1782-1854). —Novelist, dau. of James F., one of the principal clerks of the Court of Session, in which office he was the colleague of Sir Walter Scott. Miss F. wrote three excellent novels, Marriage (1818), The Inheritance (1824), and Destiny (1831), all characterised by racy humour and acute character-painting. Her cheerful and tactful friendship helped to soothe the last days of Sir W. Scott.