Memoir of Susannah Whitrow | Mourning Chapbook | 1856
Memoir of Susannah Whitrow | Mourning Chapbook | 1856
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Published by the American Tract Society throughout the 19th century, these consolation chapbooks were short memoirs on community members, often children or people who died young. These are Quaker books and always religious in nature: The virtues of the deceased and their devotion to God are dramatically emphasized, especially when the person suffered a long illness. Sometimes memoirs of a specific person were nationally circulated; sometimes they were mainly printed for a specific, bereaved community, in which case they are usually written by a family member or the local priest. These are from the Juvenile Series: They were meant to help children understand death at a time when infant, child, and maternal mortality rates were very high and illnesses like tuberculosis ripped through entire towns.
This is an odd one: Susannah Whitrow died in 1677 of an illness she believed was a punishment from God for the sins of her father. She spent her final days repenting and warning against corruption. Her mother Joan Whitrow wrote a book about Susannah titled The Work of God in a Dying Maid with an intro from Quaker writer Rebecca Travers, who purportedly visited Susannah during her illness. This chapbook version of her life was published in 1856.
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