The elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry Whiting Warner and Anna Marsh Bartlett Warner, Susan Bogert Warner was born 11 July 1819 in New York City. Her mother was a wealthy socialite from Long Island, New York. Anna, the mother, did not greatly influence either of her daughters. She died in 1828 while the sisters were still young children. After his wife's death, Henry brought his sister, Frances (Aunt Fanny), to live with the small family, run the household, and mother the children. She remained with them until her death in 1885. Henry Warner, a prosperous lawyer, was raised in Canaan, New York. The sisters often spent summers at their grandfather's house in Canaan, where many of their novels were subsequently set. Warner's childhood and youth were marked by affluence, and she acquired the accomplishments of a wealthy American girl in search of a suitable husband. She was tutored in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and German; received piano, voice, drawing, and painting lessons; studied history, literature, arithmetic, and botany; and was immersed in the conversation of New York society.
The family began its dramatic decline into poverty in the Panic of 1837, when Henry Warner lost much of the family fortune in a real estate investment.
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