Warner
Warner names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Warner SUSAN, pen name ELIZA- BETH WETHERELL
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SUSAN, pen name ELIZA- BETH WETHERELL, an American novelist; born in New York, July 11, 1819. Her books are: "The Wide, Wide World" (1850); "Queechy" (2 vols. 1852); a theological treatise, "The Law and the Testimony" (1853); "The Hills of the Shatemuc" (1856); "Lyrics from the Wide, Wide World"; "The Golden Ladder" (1862); "The Old Helmet" (1863); "Wych Hazel" (1876); and an essay, "American Female Patriotism." She died in Highland Falls, N. Y., March 17, 1885. WAR OF 1812, the second serious conflict between Great Britain and the United States. It lasted for over two and a half years, years, beginning June 19, 1812, 1812, and ending with the treaty of Ghent, which was signed Dec. 24, 1814, and ratified Feb. 18, 1815. The principal cause of this war was the interference of Great Britain with American vessels, which she caused to be stopped on the high seas and searched for British subjects who were forced into the navy or imprisoned for refusing to serve. Several times American men-of-war were fired on and compelled to give up seamen in their crews. Great Britain also interfered with our commerce by her blockades and Embargo Act, and a bitter feeling was aroused. James Madison, at that time President of the United States, was personally opposed to a war, but was overruled by Congress, which appropriated large sums for the army and navy. See UNITED STATES, HISTORY.
Warner CHARLES DUDLEY, an American editor and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES DUDLEY, an American editor and author; born in Plainfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1829; was graduated at Hamilton College in 1851; admitted to the bar in 1856, and practiced in Chicago till 1860, when he removed to Hartford, Conn.; became editor of the "Press" in 1861, and of the "Courant" on its consolidation with the "Press" in 1867. He was connected with "Harper's Monthly Magazine," in charge of an editorial department for many years from 1884. His first book was a compilation for the use of students in schools, called "A Book of Eloquence" (1853). In 1870 he published "My Summer in a Garden," which was followed by "Saunterings" (1872); "Backlog Studies" (1872); "The Gilded Age" (with S. L. Clemens, 1873); "Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing" (1874); "In the Levant" (1877); "Being a Boy" (1877); "In the Wilderness" (1878); "Studies of Irving" (with W. C. Bryant and George P. Putnam, 1880); "Life of Washington Irving" (1881); edited "American Men of Letters" (of this series "Washington Irving," 1881, was the initial volume; the thirteenth volume, "George William Curtis," by Edward Cary, appeared in 1894); "The Golden House: A Novel" (1894); "The Relation of Literature to Life" (1896); "The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote" (1897); edited "A Shake Library of the World's Best Literature" (1896-1898). He died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 20, 1900.
Warner OLIN LEVI, an American sculptor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OLIN LEVI, an American sculptor; born in Suffield, Conn., April 9, 1844; early manifested a taste for sculpture; and first studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and later was a student in Carpeaux's studio. In 1872 he returned to the United States and opened a studio in New York City. In 1877 Daniel Cottier, an art dealer, invited him to place some of his work on exhibition in his rooms. This brought Mr. Warner's work under the eye of several critics who gave it favorable commendation. In 1877-1878 he modeled "Twilight," a small statue, which established his reputation. His works include "The Dancing Nymph"; "Cupid and Psyche"; reliefs of Joseph and other Indian chiefs; busts of J. Alden Weir, Miss Maude Morgan; and statues of Governor Buckingham of Connecticut, William Lloyd Garrison, General Devens; etc. He died in New York City, Aug. 14, 1896.
Warner ANNA BARTLETT, pen name AMY LOTHROP
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANNA BARTLETT, pen name AMY LOTHROP, an American author; born in New York, in 1820. In conjunction with her sister, Susan Warner, she published the novels "Say and Seal" (1860); "Wych Hazel" (1876); and "The Gold of Chickaree" (1876). Among her separate works, published under her pen name, are: "Dollars and Cents" (1853); "My Brother's Keeper" (1855); "Stories of Vinegar Hill" (1871); "The Fourth Watch"; "The Blue Flag," etc. (1879); "The Other Shore"; "Three Little Spades," a child's book; "Gardening by Myself"; "Up and Down the House"; "Pond Lily Stories"; "Miss Muff"; etc. She died in 1915.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 lists Anna Bartlett Warner's novels and children's books without mentioning the one thing that has kept her name alive: the verses beginning "Jesus loves me, this I know," written for her sister's 1860 novel "Say and Seal" and now among the most widely sung hymns in the world. Her sister Susan's "The Wide, Wide World" (1850), a runaway bestseller in its day, was long dismissed as sentimental and then recovered by feminist literary scholars from the 1970s onward, so that it is now taught as a landmark of nineteenth-century American women's fiction. Charles Dudley Warner is remembered today almost solely for the book listed here in passing, "The Gilded Age" (1873) with Mark Twain, whose title became the standard name for the whole American era after the Civil War. The entry on the sculptor Olin Levi Warner likewise omits what is now his best-known work, the bronze doors of the Library of Congress, left unfinished at his death in 1896 and completed by another hand.
Written for this edition, 2026.