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Susan Wallace : ウィキペディア英語版 | Susan Wallace
Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (December 25, 1830 – October 1, 1907) was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana. In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Wallace published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: ''The Land of the Pueblos'' (1888), ''The Storied Sea'' (1883), ''The Repose in Egypt: A Medley'' (1888), ''Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches'' (1898), and ''The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard'' (1903). She was also the wife of Lew Wallace, a lawyer, American Civil War general, politician, and diplomat. Susan completed the manuscript of Lew Wallace's two-volume autobiography following his death in 1905, with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another Crawfordsville author. Wallace died in Crawfordsville in 1907. ==Early life and education== Susan Arnold Elston was born on December 25, 1830 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. She was the third daughter, the fourth of nine children, born to wealthy and influential parents, Isaac Compton, a Crawfordsville dry goods merchant, and Maria Eveline (Akin) Elston, whose family were Quakers from upstate New York.〔Stephens, p. 10.〕〔Spragg, p. 1.〕 Susan was educated at home in Crawfordsville and at Dr. Gibbons' Friends' Boarding School in Poughkeepsie, New York.〔 While at boarding school, she studied literature, geometry, and writing, but preferred music, especially playing guitar and piano.〔〔Morsberger and Morsberger, p. 39.〕
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