"[1] Susanna Harvey married the chemist and poet James Keir, a friend of Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Priestley and supporter of the French Revolution.
At the time of their marriage, another acquaintance, William Small, wrote "Mr Keir has turned glassmaker at Stourbridge and has married a beauty".
[2] Though his manufacturing business was based in Birmingham and Dudley, Susanna wrote her novels while living in Edinburgh.
Their son Francis died in infancy,[3] and their daughter, Amelia, married a banker, John Lewis Moilliet.
[1] She recorded that the death of her mother Susanna occurred suddenly on 20 November 1802, and that she was buried at West Bromwich.