Anne Warner (1869-1913) was the author of Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop (1904), Susan Clegg and her Neighbors’ Affairs (1906), Seeing France with Uncle John (1906), Susan Clegg and a Man in the House (1907) The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1910) and Susan Clegg and her Love Affairs (1916). Susan Clegg and Mrs. Lathrop were next-door neighbors and bosom friends. Their personalities were extremely congenial, and the theoretical relation which the younger woman bore to the elder was a further bond between them. Owing to the death of her mother some twenty years before, Susan had fallen into the position of a helpless and timid young girl whose only key to the problems of life in general had been the advice of her older and wiser neighbor.