Susanna Anthony
Susanna Anthony (October 25, 1726 – June 23, 1791) was an American diarist. Biography
Born in Newport, Rhode Island as the youngest daughter of a goldsmith, she was raised as a Quaker but converted to a Congregationalist in the midst of the First Great Awakening in 1741. Anthony never married and lived an uneventful life but her diary chronicles a complicated spiritual existence. Career
She penned more than a thousand pages of diary entries that were excerpted by pastor Samuel Hopkins for his 1796 book The Life and Character of Miss Susanna Anthony. She kept a daily account of her life until 1769 (or none following that date were preserved by the time of Hopkins' book) but of those only a single volume (covering November 1, 1748, to May 5, 1751) currently survives, owned by the Connecticut Historical Society. The most notable highlight excerpted by Hopkins was the account of her 1741 conversion written years later at the age of 28. Some of her many letters to Hopkins and others, most frequently her friend Sarah Osborn, were collected as Familiar Letters in 1807. References
 Donovan, Ellen Butler. "Susanna Anthony." Mulford, Carla, Angela  Vietto, and Amy E. Winans, American women prose writers to 1820, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 200, Gale, 1999. External links
 The life and character of Miss Susanna Anthony at Google Books
 Familiar Letters at Google Books
 

1726 births
1791 deaths
American diarists
American Quakers
18th-century American people
American Congregationalists
Former Quakers
18th-century American women writers
18th-century American writers
People of colonial Rhode Island
American women memoirists
Women diarists
American memoirists
18th-century diarists