Maria Susanna Cummins
Maria Susanna Cummins was an American novelist.
Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and Maria F. Kittredge, and was the eldest of four children from that marriage. The Cummins family resided in the neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston, Massachusetts. Cummins father encouraged her to become a writer at an early age. She studied at Mrs. Charles Sedgwicks Young Ladies School in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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