Author: Nichols, Anne Susanna
Biography:
NICHOLS, Anne Susanna (1788-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 15 Feb. 1788 and baptised 15 Dec. at St. Bride’s Fleet Street, the daughter of John Nichols (1745-1826) and his second wife Martha Green. Her father and his son John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863) and grandson John Gough Nichols (1806-1873) were an important dynasty of antiquarians and printers. Her father’s Literary Anecdotes (9 vols., 1812-25) and Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century (8 vols., 1817-58) completed by his grandson, remain highly valued by scholars. In the 1851 Census she is recorded as living with her sister Isabella (1785-1868) at Church Path, Hornsey. She died on 17 Mar. 1853 and was buried at St. Mary, Islington. She left her sister an undisclosed amount but it must have been considerable since Isabella’s estate was later valued at £18,000. Her lively Journal of a Very Young Lady’s Tour (1804) has hitherto been ignored. Privately printed in just 24 copies, extracts were later included in The Suffolk Garland (1818) and Aldborough Described (1819). (ancestry.co.uk 6 Aug. 2020; GM Oct. 1819, 343, and Dec. 1826, 489-502 and Mar. 1853, 455; London Evening Standard 19 Mar. 1853; Morning Advertiser 7 Feb. 1868; information from JP) AA