The New Student's Reference Work/Warner, Susan

Warner, Susan, an American author, was born at New York City in 1819. Her stories for girls have been very popular, especially the Wide, Wide World, which has had the largest circulation of any American novel except Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other writings are Queechy, The Hills of the Shatemuc, The Old Helmet, Ellen Montgomery's Book-Shelf etc. She was best known by her pen-name, of Elizabeth Wetherell; she died at Highland Falls, N. Y., March 17, 1885.