Susanna Dorothy (Forster) Dixon

Susanna Dorothy (Forster) Dixon (1757 – 1822) was an English author who translated from the German, Uno von Troil's Letters on Iceland, and published in 1780.

Much of this entry is based on an article by Benjamin Colbert titled "Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: A Bio-Bibliographical Database," and published by University of Wolverhampton.

Following her husband's early death in 1801, she returned to live at the family home in Walthamstow, but continued her charitable work at Henham, ministering to the poor, to whom she bequeathed £100 in trust, the interest of which was to be distributed in food at Christmas.

In these circles, Susannah, in her early twenties, undertook her project of translating the Swedish Lutheran bishop, Uno von Troil's Letters on Iceland from the German.

Susanna's English translation, Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, assisted by Dr. Solander, Dr. J. Lind, Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen (originally written in Swedish and published at Upsala in 1777 and translated into German by J. G. P. Moller), was published in three editions, two in 1780 in London and Dublin and a final London edition in 1810.