Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrious Irishwomen, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century
The maiden name of Susanna Centlivre was Freeman, and her father is supposed to have been a respectable farmer living in the north of Ireland, and originally of English extraction. Her mother died when she was yet very young, and her father, marrying again, placed over her a stepmother who treated her with such harshness that at length the girl, unable to bear the tyranny any longer, determined to run away from home. She was but fifteen at this time, and the genius, which afterwards so brilliantly displayed itself, urged her to try and get to London, there to seek her fortune upon the stage. How she got from Ireland to England must ever remain a mystery; but she has herself said that upon arriving upon English soil - probably' at Bristol, Liverpool, or Milford - she had so little money in her pocket that she found she must walk to London. However physical fatigue at length conquered her brave spirit, and she sat down by the wayside and cried bitterly.
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