Olivia Susan Clemens was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.
15 Facts About Susy Clemens
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Susy Clemens inspired some of her father's works, at 13 wrote her own biography of him, which he later published in his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic.
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Susy Clemens's father was heartbroken when she died of spinal meningitis at age 24.
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Susy Clemens left the college after one semester, possibly because of her family's financial difficulties, because she found the studies too difficult, or because of her relationship with Brownell.
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Susy Clemens was annoyed by her father's reputation as a "mere humorist" and felt he should represent himself as a serious writer instead of just as a funny man.
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Susy Clemens was embarrassed when Twain performed the ghost story The Golden Arm for an audience at Bryn Mawr.
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Susy Clemens had begged him not to tell the story, thinking it too unsophisticated for her worldly classmates, and ran out of the hall crying when her father told the story anyway.
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Susy Clemens had Clemens stop singing lessons for the time being and encouraged her to restore her health first.
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Susy Clemens recommended hydrotherapy and proper diet and exercise, while Twain thought Susy might be helped by hypnotism.
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Susy Clemens wrote to her friend Brownell that she sometimes had trouble finding a reason for existence.
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Susy Clemens was frustrated by society's refusal to see her as anything other than the daughter of Mark Twain.
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In Florence, the then nineteen-year-old Susy Clemens became infatuated with a married Italian count.
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Susy Clemens felt she was helped by Mental Science, a less structured version of Christian Science, and to some extent by modern Spiritualism.
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Susy Clemens stayed in Elmira, at the home of her aunt Susan Crane.
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Susy Clemens was moved to her family home, and stayed in her parents' mahogany bed, which had detachable angels on each post, a bed that she and her sisters had fond memories of playing with as children.