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What happens when a young girl's conscience asks more of her than the people around her expect?
In Susan Warner's Daisy, a young heiress faces the work of growing up and learning to stand on her own moral feet. A Southern plantation forms the setting, but Daisy's inner life is central: what she thinks, what she feels, and how she answers the pull of conscience.
For Daisy, doing right is not always the comfortable choice. Her sense of duty can pull against her own wishes or the people around her. Warner explores Christian faith through daily habits rather than grand speeches, giving small choices emotional weight. The invitation is to look closely at a child's struggle to live by what she believes.
What you’ll discover
- A conscience taking shape Follow a young girl as she learns to answer her own sense of right.
- The cost of doing right Explore the strain of choosing conscience when comfort and personal wishes pull another way.
- Faith in daily life See how Warner places Christian belief within ordinary habits and choices.
- Small moments that matter Look closely at thoughts and feelings that give a childhood story its weight.
- Feeling openly expressed Enter a Victorian novel where the narrator guides sympathy and emotions are openly stated.
Who will love it
This book will delight readers who love a young heroine with a mind of her own, faith put to the test, warm friendships and vivid pictures of life before the Civil War.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Daisy travels south to a house that is not home
- Miss Pinshon fills every hour and locks no door
- Daisy sees what the plantation really is
- One small light turns a kitchen into a church
- Dr. Sandford carries Daisy North and meets her conscience
- School shows Daisy what belonging to Christ will cost
- West Point brings friendship, parades and storm clouds
- Money is a trust and comfort has a cost
- Custom can blind good people to plain wrongs
- Daisy tells her own story in a plain, steady voice
Who’s who
- Daisy RandolphA young heiress and new Christian who tries to follow her conscience and to help the people enslaved on her family's land.
- Preston GaryDaisy's charming, hot-tempered cousin, proud of the South, who loves her but cannot accept her views on slavery.
- Miss PinshonDaisy's strict, black-eyed governess, who believes in mathematics, discipline and keeping a close watch on her pupil.
- Uncle DarryThe gray-haired coachman at Magnolia, a gentle, dignified Christian who becomes Daisy's first friend among the workers.
- Dr. SandfordA family friend and army surgeon with piercing blue eyes who becomes Daisy's guardian and watches her closely.
- Miss CardiganA warm, wealthy and plain-spoken old lady with a greenhouse who becomes Daisy's wise friend in New York.
- Christian ThoroldA cheerful, quick-eyed cadet from Vermont who befriends Daisy at West Point and wonders at her faith.
- MariaMagnolia's cook, a stout, kind and shrewd woman who helps Daisy start the Sunday readings in the kitchen.
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Daisy
by Susan Warner · 1868
A young heiress sees the seven hundred enslaved people on her family's plantation and vows to help them.
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What would you do if you learned, at ten years old, that your family's comfort rests on the unpaid work of seven hundred people? Daisy Randolph, a young heiress and a new Christian, has to answer that question.
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Daisy travels south to a house that is not home
Daisy looks back on her childhood. Her life grew bright when she became a Christian just as she turned ten. Then her father is thrown from his horse and badly hurt, and the doctors send him abroad. Her mother goes with him, and Daisy is left with her Aunt Gary.
Aunt Gary takes her south by train through endless pine forests. At a lonely station her cousin Preston lifts her down and tries to cheer her. In Baytown she meets her new governess, Miss Pinshon, a young woman with long black curls and heavy eyes that never seem to blink. Preston jokes that she is a Gorgon who will turn Daisy to stone.
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Warner, Susan. Daisy. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/daisy.
Warner, S. (2026). Daisy. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daisy (Original work published 1868)
Warner, Susan. Daisy. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daisy.
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What is Daisy by Susan Warner about?
Daisy follows a young heiress who becomes a Christian, moves to her family's Southern plantation, and discovers slavery. She spends her youth trying to follow her conscience, giving what she can to others, and standing firm in school and society.
Who are Preston, Miss Pinshon and Dr. Sandford?
Preston is Daisy's cousin, a proud young Southerner who loves her but disagrees with her. Miss Pinshon is her strict governess at Magnolia. Dr. Sandford is a family friend and army surgeon who becomes her guardian.
What does the world does not know us mean in Daisy?
The phrase comes from the First Epistle of John. Daisy reads it to mean that those who belong to Christ may be misunderstood or overlooked by the world, and she decides to accept that rather than chase admiration.
The author
Susan Warner
1819–1885 · American novelist
Susan Warner (1819–1885) was an American novelist born in New York City. She lived on Constitution Island in the Hudson River from 1836. She wrote under the name Elizabeth Wetherell. Her novels included The Wide, Wide World (1850) and Queechy (1852). She died in Highland Falls, New York.
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