She was a friend of the Fox family of Falmouth, who provided some of her material (pp.
She ends the preface "I should mention that this little work is simply a Collecteana, and has no greater pretension" (page x).
[4] She was one of the speakers at a celebration of the thirty-second anniversary of Modern Spiritualism on Sunday 4 April 1880, advertised in The Times.
[5] In 1910 or 1911, she was interviewed by Walter Evans-Wentz concerning folktales heard from the peasants around her home at Crill, near Falmouth, published in The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries.
[6][7] Media related to Susan Elizabeth Gay at Wikimedia Commons