Lifespan: 1827-1915
Nationality: American
Types of Work: Novels, children's stories, poems, songs, religious works
Contemporaries: Susan Bogert Warner
Other Names: Amy Lothrop
Bio:
Anna Bartlett Warner was born on 31 August, 1827 in New York City to Henry Warner and Anna Bartlett. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was from a wealthy New York family. Susan's mother died when she was a child, and her father eventually lost the family fortune in the Panic of 1837, forcing the family to leave their New York mansion and move to a farmhouse on Constitution Island.
Anna and her sister, Susan Bogert Warner began writing to supplement the family's reduced income. Together and seperately, the two wrote numerous novels, hymns, religious works, poetry, and children's stories. Anna often wrote under the pseudonym, "Amy Lothrop". In all, she penned thirty-one novels as well as a biography about her sister.
Perhaps one of Anna and Susan's best known works is the children's hymn, "Jesus Loves Me". Anna and her sister held Bible studies for the West Point cadets and introduced the song. The song-- and the sisters' work-- became so popular that Anna (as well as her sister) was buried in the West Point Cemetery after her death on 22 January, 1915. The sisters' family home on Constitution Island is now a museum on the grounds of The United States Military Academy, which was situated across from the house during their lifetime.
Novels:
Dollars and Cents (1852)
Glen Luna
Wych Hazel (1853- with Susan Bogert Warner)
Casper (1855)
Mr. Rutherford's Children (1855- with Susan Bogert Warner)
The Hills of the Shatemuc (1856- with Susan Bogert Warner)
Say and Seal (1860-with Susan Bogert Warner)
The Prince in Disguise (1862)
The Children of Blackberry Hollow (1863)
The Two Schoolgirls, or Pride and Humility (1864)
Miss Muff and Little Hungry (1866)
My Brother's Keeper (1866)
Three Little Spades (1868)
An Hunderedfold (1871)
The Other Shore (1872)
Stories of Blackberry Hollow and Stories of Vinegar Hill (1872)
The Fourth Watch (1874)
The Gold of Chickaree (1877- with Susan Bogert Warner)
What Aileth Thee (1881)
A Bag of Stories (1883)
The Shoes of Peace (1884)
Yours and Mine (1888)
Gold of Chickaree, in West Point Colors (1904)