Bram Stoker

Susan was one of the ten children of John and Susan Frances Harden, whose residences were listed in the 1858 Thom’s Directory as 48 Buckingham St. Lower in Dublin and Brighton Lodge in Raheny, a seaside suburb north of Dublin. Susan studied china painting and watercolors at the Dublin School of Art, and was a keen botanist. She lived with Dick in the mountains of North West India for twenty years, where he helped her gather seeds and plant specimens to send home. They both 

recorded the flora and fauna; Susan’s watercolors of butterflies and moths have been described as showing detailed color, executed with an entomologist’s eye, and signed with “SS”.   

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Susan and Dick lived in British Columbia from 1900 ‘til his death in 1931 and hers in 1936.

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According to family accounts, Susan’s one child did not survive, he or she was either stillborn, or died as an infant in India.