Warner, SUSAN, authoress, born at New York, 11th July 1819, published under the pen-name of Elizabeth Wetherell her first novel, The
Wide, Wide World, in 1851. It proved, next to Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most successful of American stories, and owes nothing to either its subject or its incidents. Queechy followed the year after, The Hills of Shatemuc in 1856, The Old Helmet in 1863, Melbourne House in 1864, Daisy in 1868, and A Story of Small Beginnings in 1872. Her other works were mostly religious. She died at Highland Falls, New York, 17th March 1885.