Susannah (or Susanna) Valentine Aldrich was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, November 14, 1828.

John Calvin Webster, her pastor, also one of the directors of the academy which Aldrich attended, was struck with the merit and quality of her compositions, and selected some of them to offer to a magazine for publication.

For many years, Aldrich contributed prose and poetry to a number of papers and magazines.

She was a victim to insomnia, and she always kept paper and pencil within reach in order to jot down her ideas during periods of wakefulness.

[1] She died in Boston, November 30, 1905 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Hopkinton.