A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Warner, Susan

by John William Cousin

Warner, Susan (1819-1885). Writer of tales, b. at New York and wrote, under the name of "Elizabeth Wetherell," a number of stories, of which The Wide, Wide World (1851) had an extraordinary popularity. Others were Queechy (1852), The Old Helmet (1863), and Melbourne House (1864). They have no particular literary merit or truth to nature, and are rather sentimental and "gushy."