Susan Bogert Warner

WARNER, Susan Bogert. b. New York, 11 July 1819; d. 17 March 1885. Born in New York, she was the older sister of Anna Bartlett Warner*. With the failure of her father’s real estate speculation in 1837, the family moved to a farmhouse on Constitution Island on the Hudson River, where the sisters made a living by writing. Susan, who was the more successful of the two, wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell. Her novel, The Wide, Wide World (1851), was a best-seller, admired by Henry James, and Queechy (1852), praised by Elizabeth Barrett Browning*, consolidated her reputation. Susan Warner is known to hymnology for her children’s hymn, ‘Jesus bids us shine with a pure clear...

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