WORKS OF WOMAN AUTHOR AND BOOKSELLER DEPRIVED OF MINISTRY

Pearson, Susanna: Essays and letters; humbly and affectionately presented to the Church of Christ, by Susanna Pearson. With an additional essay on the Throne of Grace. Ipswich: printed and sold by S.H. Cowell; sold also [...] by the author, Bildestone, Suffolk. 1827.

The only known work (in its only located edition) by the Baptist author Susanna Pearson (née Flinders) of Bildeston, Suffolk (1779-1827). The work comprises 11 essays and nine letters. The author is listed, on the printed front cover, as a seller of the work. “The contents of the present little Volume were the production of my leisure, and sometimes of my solitary hours [...] when some of these Essays and Letters were written, I was deprived of enjoying a gospel ministry, which before I had been highly favoured with for six years” (Preface).

Details

One volume, 18 cms. x 11.3 cms., duodecimo, pp. viii, [5]-224. Light browning, bound in paper-covered boards, the paper to front cover and spine printed, edges uncut (loss and peeling to spine). Inscription to inside front cover: “The gift of W Curtis Matthews to the Book Society, Burnell Vestry Chapple”.

OCLC and COPAC show copies at British Library, Oxford, Cambridge and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (MI).

For biography of this author, see George Pearson, Memoirs of the life and character of Mrs. Susanna Pearson (Ipswich, 1827), 1-19.