Susannah is the clever Mrs.John Taylor of this story, and her daughter of even greater ability was Sarah Austin, the wife of the famous jurist.

Their daughter married Sir Alexander Duff-Gordon.

She was the author of _Letters from Egypt_, a book to which George Meredith wrote an 'Introduction,' so much did he love the writer.
Lady Duff-Gordon's daughter, Janet Ross, wrote the biography of her mother, her grandmother, and Mrs.John Taylor, in _Three Generations of Englishwomen_.

A niece, Lena Duff-Gordon (Mrs.Waterfield), has written pleasant books of travel, and so, for five generations, this family has produced clever women-folk.

But here we are only concerned with Mrs.
John Taylor, called by her friends the 'Madame Roland of Norwich.' Lucy Aikin describes how she 'darned her boy's grey worsted stockings while holding her own with Southey, Brougham, or Mackintosh.' One of her daughters married Henry Reeve, and, as I have said, another married John Austin.