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...

In the preface to her biography of her sister Susan, Anna Warner describes her initial discomfort with writing and self-exposure but then justifies these through an appeal to religious duty: New England blood is never ashamed of any work that ought...

"I wish we could name them all. But there's no end to them." ... "If you are a-going to name them all," said Nancy, "we sha'n't get home to-night; you might as well name all the trees." --Susan Warner, The Wide, Wide...

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.