Malting house school susan isaacs biography
Susan isaacs
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Susan Sutherland Isaacs
Early life
In her lifetime Isaacs was admired for her intellectual gifts, and she excelled as a writer and teacher, but as a child she suffered some serious hardships.
The second youngest of eight children, she was born Susan Fairhurst on 24th May 1885, near Bolton in Lancashire, to skilled working class parents. Her father, William Fairhurst, was a saddler, a man of strong principles and ideals, who became a local journalist and lay Methodist preacher.
Malting house school susan isaacs biography
Her mother, Miriam Sutherland, was a milliner, also intellectual and musical. But when Susan was six her mother died, and her father soon remarried. Family relationships deteriorated, and as a teenager she developed rebellious ideas, stating that she was now an agnostic or an atheist, and a socialist – whereupon her father removed her from school, remarking, “If education makes women godless, they are better off without it.” Susan then adopted her dead mother’s surname, in preference to her fa