The complete online text of Queechy by Susan Warner.

Susan (Bogert) Warner (11 July 1819-17 March 1885), prolific novelist, is remembered today as the author of a single best-seller, The Wide, Wide World. Indeed, the publishing history of that book rivals its interest as a literary production. It was an ou...

Susan Bogert Warner, who wrote under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell, wrote twenty-seven novels, four volumes of biblical history, one biblical study, various religious tracts, a prize-winning essay on patriotism, and, with her sister, Anna Bartlett Wa...

Susan Warner, best remembered for her popular first two novels, The Wide, Wide World (1850) and Queechy (1852), was one of the few American women to write successfully for a living during the antebellum period. Attempting both to support her family and t...