Author: Turner, Juliana Frances
Biography:
TURNER, Juliana Frances (1775-1837: ancestry.com)
Details are sketchy. She was born perhaps in the north of England or in Scotland, had a genteel education, married in 1802, and emigrated to America with her husband and at least one child in 1819. Her sole published work is a record of three years spent on a farm in Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania. It includes a poem written on board the Hector in 1819 and an acrostic for the anniversary of Washington's birthday on 22 Feb. 1822. She may have been a personal acquaintance of Thomas Campbell (q.v.) since one of the poems is entitled "Lines on perceiving that the damp had effaced part of a Manuscript Letter of Thomas Campbell Esq." They left Pennsylvania shortly after the publication of her book and returned eventually to England, where she died in Manchester and was buried in the parish of St. Ann's on 27 Feb. 1837. (ancestry.com 30 Nov. 2020; Emily C. Blackman, A History of Susquehanna County [1873]) HJ