Susan Warner

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Susan Bogert Warner (pen name Elizabeth Wetherell; 1819-1860), a Christian scholar who wrote about religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological literature in the United States.

She is best known for her book The Wide Wide World.

Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks From Eden, House of Israel, What She Could Be Doing, Opportunities, and House of Commons are among her other exhibitions.

Say and Seal, Christmas Stocking, Books of Blessing, 8 vols., and Testimony were among Warner and Anna's semi-religious books that saw record-breaking sales, including Say and Seal, Say and Seal, Say and Seal, Say and Seal, Say and Seal, Anna's Book, and Testimony.

Early years and education

Susan Warner was born in New York City on July 11, 1819. Warner can trace her lineage back to the Puritans on both directions. Henry Warner, a New England lawyer from New England, and her mother, Anna Bartlett, from a wealthy, fashionable family in New York's Hudson Square, was born. When Warner was a child, she mother died, and her father, Fanny, came to live with the Warners. Even if the father was wealthy, he lost the majority of his fortune in the Panic of 1837 and subsequent lawsuits and poor investments. On Constitution Island, near West Point, New York, the family had to leave their mansion at St. Mark's Place in New York and relocate to an old Revolutionary War-era farmhouse. Susan and Anna began writing to earn money in 1849, when seeing no improvement in their family's financial situation.

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Career

She wrote under the name "Elizabeth Wetherell" for thirty books, some of which went into multiple editions. Nonetheless, her first book, The Wide, Wide World (1850), was the most popular. It was translated into many other languages, including French, German, and Dutch. It was certainly the most widely distributed story of American authorship other than Uncle Tom's Cabin. Queechy (1852), The Evidence and the Testimony (1853), The Hills of the Shatemuc, (1856), and Melbourne's (1864). Critics adored the portrayals of rural American life in her early books in the nineteenth century. Reviewers in the United States lauded Warner's Christian and moral lessons, but London reviewers did not often endorse her didacticism. Early twentieth-century commentators characterized Warner's work as "sentimental" and, as a result of lack of literary value. Feminist scholars revived The Wide Wide World in the late twentieth century, focusing on its representation of gender transitions and emphasizing its representations of gender dynamics.

Anna Bartlett Warner, who wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Lothrop," wrote some of her books together. The Warner sisters also wrote popular children's Christian songs. Susan wrote "Jesus Bids Us Shine" while Anna was the author of the first verse of the well-known children's song "Jesus Loves Me" which was written at Susan's request.

In the late 1830s, both sisters became devout Christians. They became confirmed members of the Mercer Street Presbyterian church after conversion, but later in life, Warner was drawn into Methodist circles. The sisters also conducted Bible studies for the West Point cadets. The cadets would sing "Jesus Loves Me" while on military service. The song's success was so high that she was buried in the West Point Cemetery on Warner's death.

Susan Warner was born in Highland Falls, New York, and is buried in the West Point Cemetery.

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