Born: July 11 1819, United States
Died: March 17 1885
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Elizabeth Wetherell (pen name)
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Susan Warner, an American novelist, known under the pen name of Elizabeth Wetherell. She wrote a number of stories, usually with moral teachings, and collaborated with her sister Anna, but she is chiefly remembered for her very successful novel, The Wide, Wide World, published in 1851.
It was translated into various European languages, and, next to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was perhaps the most widely circulated story of American authorship.