Introduction

Biography

Anna was the daugh­ter of Hen­ry War­ner, a weal­thy New York Ci­ty law­yer.

When he lost most of his for­tune in the 1837 de­press­ion, the fa­mi­ly was forced to move to their sum­mer home (Good Craig) on Con­sti­tu­tion Is­land in the Hud­son River. It was then that An­na and her sis­ter Su­san be­gan writ­ing to earn mo­ney.

They al­so con­duct­ed Bi­ble class­es for ca­dets at the near­by Mi­li­ta­ry Aca­de­my at West Point, where their un­cle had been a chap­lain, 1828–38. In me­mo­ry of her, the Aca­de­my’s Con­sti­tu­tion Is­land As­so­cia­tion man­ages the War­ner’s is­land pro­per­ty as an his­tor­ic site.

Works

• The Law and the Tes­ti­mo­ny
• Dollars and Cents (the sto­ry of her fa­mi­ly’s fi­nan­cial tri­als)
• Gardening by My­self
• Hymns of the Church Mi­li­tant, 1858
• Wayfaring Hymns, Orig­in­al and Trans­lat­ed, 1869
• Susan War­ner, 1909 (a bio­gra­phy of her sis­ter)