SB
's Aunt Simpson
wrote a letter expressing anxiety about the relationship between her niece and Lord Ossulston
of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland (later the fourth Earl Tankerville).
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
16, 17
Family and Intimate relationships
Susanna Blamire
After her father's second marriage, SB
was taken in by an aunt (her mother's sister-in-law, the widowed Mary Simpson
), who brought her up with parental care at Thackwood Nook near Stockdalewath (the Jacobean manor...
