Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31, 1827 – January 22, 1915) was an American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children. She is best known for writing the

hymn A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hymn'' d ...

Jesus Loves Me "Jesus Loves Me" is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915). The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called ''Say and Seal'', written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in whic ...

Biography

Anna Bartlett Warner was born on

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on August 31, 1827. She died at her home in

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on January 22, 1915.

Work

The best known of her hymns is almost certainly "

". Some stanzas of this appear in modern hymnals rewritten by David Rutherford McGuire. She wrote some books jointly with her sister

Susan Warner Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885) was an American Presbyterianism, Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for her massive bes ...

(Elizabeth Wetherell) which included ''Wych Hazel'' (1853), ''Mr. Rutherford's Children'' (1855) and ''The Hills of the Shatemuc'' (1856). She sometimes wrote under the pseudonym ''Amy Lothrop''. She wrote thirty-one novels on her own, the most popular of which was ''Dollars and Cents'' (1852), Others were ''Gold of Chickaree'', ''In West Point Colors'' (1904), ''Stories of Blackberry Hollow'' and Stories of Vinegar Hill (1872). She also wrote a biography of her sister Susan.

Legacy

Her former family home is now a museum on the grounds of The United States Military Academy which was opposite the house during her lifetime and where her uncle had been chaplain from 1828 to 1838.Anna Bartlett Warner (1909) ''Susan Warner'', G.P. Putnam's Sons The Constitution Island Association have worked hard to maintain the house and restore the gardens so that they are similar to their appearance in Anna Warner's lifetime, following her month-by-month descriptions of life on Constitution Island, as written in ''Gardening by Myself''.

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