Susanna Montgomerie Norris Editor

Susanna Montgomerie Norris was born in 1940 and brought up on the family farm, Taukoro, near Wanganui. After secondary education at Samuel Marsden Collegiate in Wellington, she qualified as a teacher and spent two years teaching in London, then travelling in Europe and North America. She later trained as a children's librarian. After they married, Susanna and her husband, Mike Norris, lived in Kumeu and Kerikeri before returning to Wanganui with their son, Hew. Susanna, who has a lifelong interest in history, especially that of her family, has spent 13 years transcribing and working on her grandmother Annie's diary and has travelled to many of the places it mentions.