Susan Dabney Smedes

Susan C. née Dabney Smedes (August 20, 1840 – July 4, 1913) was a teacher, newspaper correspondent, and author who wrote about her father's plantation.

She and her sisters were benefactors of the Bishop Green training-school at Dry Grove, Mississippi where she taught.

She moved with her family to Baltimore after their plantation, Burleigh, was lost to creditors.

In 1887 she became a teacher at the U.S. government's Big Oak School of the Rosebud Agency in Dakota Territory.

Fletcher Melvin Green edited and wrote an introduction to a 1963 reissue of her book.