Susanna Duncombe (née Highmore; 5 December 1725 – 28 October 1812) was an English poet and artist.
[3] She was the only daughter of Joseph Highmore, the painter who illustrated Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, was born in 1725, probably in London, either in the city or Lincoln's Inn Fields.
She contributed the story of Fidelio and Honoria to The Adventurer; was eulogised by John Duncombe as Eugenia in his Feminead, 1754; and, after a protracted courtship, they were married on 20 April 1763, and went to his living in Kent, taking her father with them.
[3] Later resident in Green Court on the close of Canterbury Cathedral, she was a friend of Eliza Berkeley, and kept cats.
In January 1786, she was left a widow, with one child, a daughter, and took up her residence in the Precincts, Canterbury.