Guests included Sir James Edward Smith, the botanist, Henry Crabb Robinson, the barrister, Robert Southey, poet laureate, Cecilia Windham, wife of William Windham and Sir James Mackintosh.

[11] Others guests at the house were William Enfield, and some early supporters of the French Revolution: Edward Rigby, Norwich physician James Alderson and his daughter Amelia.

[2] The soubriquets Dame or Madame Roland were used by Susannah's close friends when addressing her, as she was said to look like the French revolutionist.

[2][13] John and Susannah raised seven children to be honest, to avoid debt, and to take control of their business dealings.

Their children were John (1779–1863),[14] Richard (1781–1858), Edward (1784–1863), Philip (1786–1870),[14] Susan (born 1788), married Whig politician Henry Reeve, Arthur (born 1790), a printer and F.S.A., author of The Glory of Regality (London, 1820), and Papers in relation to the Antient Topography of the Eastern Counties (London, 1869), and Sarah, wife of John Austin, the jurist.