(Mrs. Lathrop sat on her front piazza, and Susan Clegg sat...)
Mrs. Lathrop sat on her front piazza, and Susan Clegg sat with her. Mrs. Lathrop was rocking, and Susan was just back from the Sewing Society. Neither Mrs. Lathrop nor Susan was materially altered since we saw them last. Time had moved on a bit, but not a great deal, and although both were older, still they were not much older.
Susan Clegg: Her Friend and Her Neighbors (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Susan Clegg: Her Friend and Her Neighbors
Of such a sort was her usual Saturday morning greeting to Mrs. Lathrop, I'm sorry to cut you of? So quick, but this 's father's day to be beat up and got into new pillow-slips, or her regular early-june remark, Well, I thank Heaven 't father 's had his hair picked over 'n' 't he's got his new tick for this year!
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Anne Richmond Warner was an American writer of fiction.
Background
Anne Richmond Warner was born in St. Paul, Minn. , the daughter of William Penn and Anna Elizabeth (Richmond) Warner. Her father, a lawyer of St. Paul, was a descendant of Andrew Warner, yeoman, who had emigrated from England to Massachusetts by 1632 and lived successively in Cambridge, Hartford, and Hadley. Her mother was a descendant of John Richmond, who also emigrated from England to America about 1630. In the quiet which her father's scholarly habits imposed upon his household the child cultivated a love of reading and self-expression, became an accomplished pianist, rode and drove for recreation, and associated almost wholly with adults. The routine of her girlhood was broken only by occasional trips to Nunda, N. Y. , to visit her paternal grandmother.
Education
Anne Warner was educated at home by her mother, who was a wit and a lover of Dickens, and by a French tutor.
Career
After the death of an infant daughter in 1892 she occupied herself by compiling a genealogical tree for her son, An American Ancestry (1894). An eager curiosity to see the scenes she had read about took her to Europe in 1901. She settled in Tours with her two children and in 1902 published a slender volume, His Story, Their Letters. After spending two years in France she returned to America and went to live in St. Paul, but she found it distracting to write there. The next year she settled in Munich, and two years later in Hildesheim, Germany. In 1904 she published A Woman's Will and Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop. The instant popularity won by Susan Clegg's homely humor prompted her to write Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs (1906), Susan Clegg and a Man in the House (1907), Susan Clegg, Her Friend and Her Neighbors (1910), and Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs (1916). In 1905 she published The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, which she later dramatized. From 1904 until her death her stories appeared in profusion in the popular magazines, many of the serials being published later as novels. A collection of the short stories, An Original Gentleman, appeared in 1908. She wrote easily and rapidly, a simple incident often suggesting an entire story to her. As her popularity in America grew it became more difficult for her to write there, her friendly generosity refusing to repel admirers. She returned every year or two, however, for brief visits. From 1906 until 1910 she spent much of her time in Hildesheim. In 1910 she rented a house in Marnhull, Dorset, England, and settled there to give her daughter Anne (b. 1895), who was her constant companion, a less kaleidoscopic home life. When her son, Charles Eltinge French (b. 1889), was ill in America during the summer and fall of 1912, she was unable to go to him because of her aged and helpless father, whom she had brought to her English home. She was distracted by anxiety and grief and unable to write. She died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage a short time after her son's death.
In her lively wit and humor and in her method of writing lay much both of the charm and the impermanence of her stories, which are slight in plot and characterization but fresh, vivacious, and amusing.
Connections
When she was eighteen she married (September 12, 1888) Charles Eltinge French, a flour manufacturer of Minneapolis, twenty-five years her senior.