Hopton, Susanna Harvey (1627–1708)
Hopton, Susanna Harvey (1627–1708)
British devotional writer. Born Susanna Harvey, 1627, in England; died July 12, 1702, in Herefordshire, England; m. Richard Hopton (died 1696).
Converted to Roman Catholicism but reverted to Anglicanism; undertook works of charity and, despite lack of formal education, wrote erudite devotional works, including Daily Devotions Consisting of Thanksgivings, Confessions, and Prayers (1673), Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices (1700), Letter to Father Turbeville in Second Collection of Controversial Letters (ed. G. Hickes, 1710), and Hexaemeron, or Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation and Meditations and Devotions on the Life of Christ in Meditations and Devotions, in Three Parts (ed. N. Spinckes, 1717).
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