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With the support of her father and her cousin, sculptor Alexander Galt, Susan cultivated her artistic and writing talents.  She published in The Southern Literary Messenger when she was eleven and began her writing career.  During her career, she contributed many pieces to this prominent Richmond periodical.  Susan's work was also available in book form, as Rudd & Carleton published her Poems in 1859.  On October 26,  The Richmond Dispatch included an advertisement noting that Susan's book was being sold for seventy-five cents at Randolph's Bookstore and Bindery on Main Street in Richmond.  The Nationa Era reviewed her book on November 10, 1859.

Susan's personal network in Richmond included Benjamin B. Minor, editor of The Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe, Rosalie Poe, and sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine.  

Her lengthy poem ""The Battle of Manassas"" was published as a broadside in Richmond on August 3, 1861. When living in Norfolk during the Civil War, Susan apparently served as a spy, was caught, and spent time in confinement.

She married Colonel Louis Weiss of the Union Army, started a family and moved to New York City.  However, Susan's personal life was not a happy one and the couple divorced.  Focusing on her writing to support herself and her son, Susan penned pieces for newspapers and magazines such as Scribner's Monthly  (""Peter Bloch.   A Hartz Legend,"" September 1871), The Aldine (""The Best to Come,"" June 1875), Century Magazine (""The Last Days of Poe,"" April 1878), Harper's Magazine (May 1878), Wide Awake (June 1886), and The People's Home Journal (1904).

In 1907, Broadway Publishing Company published Susan's The Home Life of Poe.

During her later years, she lived in Richmond with her son.  She passed away there on  April 7, 1917 and was buried in Riverview Cemetery.",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-8235164.67014 4977708.1245529)|POINT(-8618228.8303398 4514346.853321)|POINT(-8492505.2118323 4417577.5801908)|7|-8547264.7007542|4478013.7921016|osm Susan Archer Weiss was born in Hancock County, VA on February 14, although the year of her birth is in question. She later lived in Richmond, VA, Norfolk, VA, and New York, NY.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"^^^^",,,"February 14, 1822","Hanover County, VA","April 7, 1917",Artist^^Poet^^Author,,"^^^^^^","poet, author and artist",,"

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