Warner, Susan, 1819-1885

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Name (Latin)
Warner, Susan, 1819-1885
Other forms of name
Wetherell, Elizabeth, 1819-1885
Wetherell, Miss, 1819-1885
Author of The wide, wide world, 1819-1885
Wide, wide world, Author of The, 1819-1885
Date of birth
1819-07-11
Date of death
1885-03-17
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19811800
Wikidata: Q6755312
Library of congress: n 79081873
Sources of Information
  • Antebellum writers in New York. Second series, ©2002:page 338 (author of The wide, wide world, originally as Elizabeth Wetherell; author of The hills of the Shatemuc, 1856, as the author of The wide, wide world) page 363 (first novel, 1850)
  • The wide, wide world, 1993:title page (Susan Warner)
  • Wikipedia, 7 January 2017(Susan Warner; Susan Bogert Warner, American evangelical writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works; born 11 July 1819, New York City; died 17 March 1885, Highland Falls, New York; wrote several novels under the name Elizabeth Wetherell; some of her works were written jointly with her younger sister Anna Bartlett Warner, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Lothrop")
  • Melbourne House, 1878:t.p. (Miss Wetherell)
  • Antebellum writers in New York. Second series, c2002:p. 338 (author of The wide, wide world, as Elizabeth Wetherell; author of The hills of the Shatemuc, 1856, as the author of The wide, wide world) p. 363 (first novel, 1850)
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Wikipedia description:

Susan Bogert Warner (pen name, Elizabeth Wetherell; July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885) was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for her massive bestseller The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of the Shatemuc, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town. Warner and her sister, Anna, wrote a series of semi-religious novels that had extraordinary sales, including Say and Seal, Christmas Stocking, Books of Blessing (in 8 volumes), and The Law and the Testimony.

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