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Olivia Susan Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896) was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.
Olivia Susan Clemens‚ called “Susy” by her family‚ was the second child and the oldest of three daughters. Born March 19‚ 1872‚ Susy was a baby when Langdon died‚ and after his death both parents doted on Susy.
Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy) (1872–1896) Short Biography. Susy Clemens was SLC’s second child and eldest daughter. Her early education was conducted largely at home by her mother and, for several years starting in 1880, by a governess. Her talents for writing, dramatics, and music were soon apparent.
Olivia Susan Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896) was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.
Nov 2, 2023 · This article focuses on the final six years of Susy Clemens’s life, from the time she was admitted to Bryn Mawr College at the age of eighteen to her final days in Hartford, Connecticut, where she died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis while preparing to rejoin her parents in Europe.
Read Mark Twain's letter mourning the sudden death of his daughter, Susy, and describing his despair. View online at the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.
May 20, 2016 · Handwritten or typed plays by Mr. Clemens’s oldest daughter, Susy, show how seriously she took her writing, even as a teenager; they include stage directions, set designs and costume...
Jan 1, 1985 · A charming little bonbon written by Susy Clemens, aged 13, a biography of her father. Bittersweet, too, since Susy died at 24. Clemens interjects comments, explanations and reminiscences of his own into her text, which makes for a deeper picture of the close relationship between the two.
In 1896 tragedy struck when Susy Clemens‚ at age 24‚ died from meningitis while on a visit to the Hartford home. Unable to bear being in the place of her death‚ the Clemenses never returned to Hartford to live.
Papa, an Intimate Biography of Mark Twain. Susy Clemens. Doubleday, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 236 pages. A biography of Twain written by his daughter Susy when she was thirteen and he...
