Anne Warner - The Rejuvenation Of Mary (13/23) Aunt Mary En Fête

Описание: THE REJUVENATION OF AUNT MARY.....
Young scapegrace John Watkins, Jr., Denham ("Jack"), the favourite of his great-aunt Mary, has gotten into one too many scrapes. This time he has gone a little wild after overhearing his lady-love and another man saying sweet things to each other, and he now is facing expulsion from college. Aunt Mary finally tires of bailing him out and disinherits him. Jack, with the help of his friends, sets out to redeem himself and get back on her good side.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Anne Richmond Warner French (October 14, 1869 – February 3, 1913) was an American popular humorous author, best known for her local color stories about the character Susan Clegg. Anne Warner was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of lawyer William Penn Warner and Anna Elizabeth Richmond. In 1888, when she was eighteen, she married Charles Elting French, a Minneapolis flour manufacturer twenty five years older than her.They had two children: Anna Hathaway French (April 6 1892-December 17, 1892) and Charles Elting French (born September 19, 1896).

Her first published work was an extensive family genealogy, An American Ancestry (1894). She lived for two years in Tours, France and published her first novel, His Story, Their Letters (1902), a story told in conversations of a man and a woman who fall in love in Tours but eventually marry other people. She moved back to Saint Paul in 1903, but soon returned to Europe permanently, living in Hildesheim, Germany and Marnhull, Dorset, England.

Other novels by Warner include A Woman's Will (1904), about an American widow courted by a German musician, and The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1905), a family drama about an aunt who disinherits and then reconciles with her nephew. Warner's most popular works were about Susan Clegg, a woman who retells local gossip to her friend Mrs. Lathrop, who is often asleep in her rocking chair. Warner died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Dorset.

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