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...

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...

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...

Susan Aheron Magill's wooden desk stands beside a large, paned window overlooking the U.S. Capitol, gleaming in the crisp light of a winter afternoon. "I'm going to miss the dome," she said wistfully, apologizing for the disarray as she maneuvered around boxes she...

IF THEIR initial sorties are any indication of what's to come along the campaign trail in Virginia, John Warner and Mark Warner should spell the difference between them in lively fashion. Already the game of the name is mercifully over, having given way in...

In the following essay, Goshgarian contends that the plot of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World exemplifies the structure of male authority and female submission, a structure that idealizes the incestuous relationship.

In the following essay, Tompkins assesses the way in which women 's lives in the 1860s play into some recurring elements of sentimental fiction and the sensation novel. She focuses particularly on The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner.