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Susan Bogert Warner : Selected Primary and Secondary Bibliography (includes works by Anna Warner)

See also related bibliography on domestic fiction.

Secondary Works

Argersinger, Jana L. "Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss and Authorial Relations in The Wide, Wide World." American Literature: 74.2 (2002): 251-.

Argersinger, Jana L. "Susan Warner (1819-1885)." Writers of the American Renaissance: An a-to-Z Guide. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. 384-91.

Balaam, Peter. "'Misery's Mathematics': Mourning, Compensation and Reality in Emerson, Warner and Melville." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 61.5 (2000): 1836-37.

Ball, Kevin. "Converting Her Readers: Susan Warner's Modeling of Reading in The Wide, Wide World." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 46 (2002): 7-31.

Bauermeister, Erica R. "The Lamplighter, The Wide, Wide World, and Hope Leslie: The Recipes for Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels." Legacy 8.1 (1991): 17-28.

Blair, Andrea. "Landscape in Drag: The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World." The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Eds. Steven Rosendale and Scott Slovic. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2002. 111-30.

Calabro, John A. "Susan Warner and Her Bible Classes." Legacy 4.2 (1987): 45-52.

Campbell, Donna M. "Sentimental Conventions and Self-Protection: Little Women and The Wide, Wide World." Legacy 11.2 (1994): 118-29.

Chantell, Claire. "The Limits of the Mother at Home in The Wide, Wide World and the Lamplighter." Studies in American Fiction 30.2 (2002): 131-.

Cruea, Susan. "Romancing the Ladies: Hawthorne's Response to the Woman Movement." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.12 (2004): 4462-63.

Damon-Bach, Lucinda L. "To Be a 'Parlor Soldier': Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'." Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika M. Elbert: U of Alabama P, Tuscaloosa, AL Pagination: 29-49, 2000. x, 307.

Damon-Bach, Lucinda Linfield. "'the Joy of Untamed Spirits and Undiminished Strength': Catherine Sedgwick's and Susan Warner's Revisionary Romances." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.7 (1996): 2679A.

Dobson, Joanne. "The Hidden Hand: Subversion of Cultural Ideology in Three Mid-Nineteenth Century American Women's Novels." American Quarterly 38.2 (1986): 223-42.

---. "'Read the Bible and Sew More': Domesticity and the Woman's Novel in Mid-Nineteenth Century America." Amerikastudien/American Studies 36.1 (1991): 24-30.

Gandolfo, Maria Christina. "Compelled to Write: Crisis and Self-Constitution in the Work of Susan Warner, Edith Wharton, and Anne Sexton." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.4 (1993): 1363A.

Gates, Sondra Smith. "The Vivtuous Poor in Domestic Fiction by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Susan Warner, 1822-1877." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 61.10 (2001): 3995-96.

Goshgarian, G. M. To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Sex in American Domestic Fiction of the 1850s.(book)

Hiatt, Mary P. "Susan Warner's Subtext: The Other Side of Piety." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8.3-4 (1987): 250-61.

Hovet, Grace Ann, and Theodore R. Hovet. "Identity Development in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World: Relationship, Performance and Construction." Legacy 8.1 (1991): 3-16.

---. "Tableaux Vivants: Masculine Vision and Feminine Reflections in Novels by Warner, Alcott, Stowe, and Wharton." American Transcendental Quarterly 7.4 (1993): 335-56.

Kim, Sharon. "Puritan Realism: The Wide, Wide World and Robinson Crusoe." American Literature 75.4 (2003): 783-.

Machor, James L. "Historical Hermeneutics and Antebellum Fiction: Gender, Response Theory, and Interpretive Texts." Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Ed. James L. Machor: Johns Hopkins UP, Baltimore Pagination: 54-84, 1993. xxix, 285.

Marks, Pamela. "The Good Provider in Romance Novels." Romantic Conventions. Eds. Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek. Bowling Green, OH: Popular,1999.10-22.

Mason, Jennifer. "Animal Bodies: Corporeality, Class, and Subject Formation in The Wide, Wide World." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54.4 (2000): 503-.

Mason, Jennifer Adrienne. "Civilized Creatures: Animality, Cultural Power, and American Literature, 1850-1901." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 61.11 (2001): 4389.

Myers, D. G. "The Canonization of Susan Warner." The New Criterion 7.4 (1988): 73-78.

Noble, Marianne. "An Ecstacy of Apprehension: The Gothic Pleasures of Sentimental Fiction." American Gothic: New Inventions in a National Narrative. Eds. Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy: U of Iowa P, Iowa City, IA Pagination: 163-82, 1998. xii, 265.

---. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature. Princeton, NJ : Princeton UP, 2000.

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Pleasure, Duty, Redemption Then and Now: Susan Warner's Diana." American Literature 59.3 (1987): 422-.

O'Connell, Catharine. "'We Must Sorrow': Silence, Suffering, and Sentimentality in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World." Studies in American Fiction 25.1 (1997): 21-.

O'Connell, Catherine Elizabeth. "Chastening the Rod: Sentimental Strategies in Three Antebellum Novels by Women." Dissertation Abstracts International 52.10 (1992): 3603A.

Ousley, Laurie. "The Power of Piety in Susan Warner's Republic." Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Eds. Joan FHallisey and Mary-Anne Vetterling. Weston, MA: Regis College, 1996. 97-101.

Papazian, Gretchen Diane. "Hunger Pangs: Emotion and the Nineteenth-Century American Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.1 (1998): 174.

Perin, Joshua Baynard. "Agriculture and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century America." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.3 (2003): 909.

Quay, Sara E. "Homesickness in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 18.1 (1999): 39-58.

Quay, Sara Elisabeth. "Objects of Affection: Counter Cultures of Consumerism in American Fiction." Dissertation Abstracts International 57.4 (1996): 1621A.

Samuels, Nils David. "Shame and Genre in Nineteenth-Century American Narrative: A Psychological Reading of Character and Choice in James Fenimore Cooper, Susan

Warner, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.1 (1998): 175.

Schnog, Nancy. "Inside the Sentimental: The Psychological Work of the Wide Wide World." Genders 4 (1989): 11-25.

Stewart, Veronica. "Mothering a Female Saint: Susan Warner's Dialogic Role in The Wide, Wide World." Essays in Literature 22.1 (1995): 59-74.

---. "The Wild Side of The Wide, Wide World." Legacy 11.1 (1994): 1-16.

Tompkins, Jane. "Susan Warner (1819-1885)." Legacy 2.1 (1985): 1.

Tompkins, Jane P. "The Other American Renaissance." The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Eds. Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease. Selected Essays from the English Institute (Seei) Number: 9. Baltimore:Johns Hopkins UP,1985. 34-57.

Trubey, Elizabeth Fekete. "Imagined Revolution: The Female Reader and The Wide, Wide World." Modern Language Studies 31.2 (2001): 57-74.

Wall, Mary Grace. "'Advice in Every Shape': Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing and the Discourse of Advice." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.7 (1999): 2511-12.

Warner, Susan. The Wide, Wide World. 1st Feminist Press ed. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1987.

Weiss, Jane. "'Many Things Take My Time': The Journals of Susan Warner." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.10 (1996): 3967A.

---. "Susan Warner (1819-1885)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson: Greenwood, Westport, CT Pagination: 452-62, 1997. xiv, 534.

Wellink, Yvonne. "American Sentimental Bestsellers in Holland in the Nineteenth Century." Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation. Eds. Bart Westerweel and Theo D'Haen. Dqr: Studies in Literature Number: 5: Rodopi, Amsterdam Pagination: 271-289, 1990. 335.

White, Isabelle. "Anti-Individualism, Authority, and Identity: Susan Warner's Contradictions in The Wide, Wide World." American Studies 31.2 (1990): 31-41.

Williams, Cynthia Schoolar. "Susan Warner's Queechy and the Bildungsroman Tradition." Legacy 7.2 (1990): 3-16.

Williams, Susan S. "Widening the World: Susan Warner, Her Readers, and the Assumption of Authorship." American Quarterly 42.4 (1990): 565-86.

Primary Works (principally online versions)


Warner, Anna Bartlett. Casper. London (11, Clerkenwell Close): Knight and Son, 1852.

Warner, Susan, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. The Broken Walls of Jerusalem and the Rebuilding of Them. London: W. Nicholson.
Warner, Susan. The Wide, Wide World. 1851. Putnam. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2651v.
Warner, Susan. Queechy. 1852. G.P. Putnam. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2649v.
Warner, Susan, et al. Mr. Rutherford's Children. Ellen Montgomery's Bookshelf. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853.
Warner, Susan. The Law and the Testimony. New York,: R. Carter, 1854.
Warner, Susan.The Hills of the Shatemuc. 1856. D. Appleton. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2646.
Warner, Susan, Josiah Wood Whymper, and J.P. Lippincott & Co. Queechy. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., 1859.
Warner, Susan, et al. Say and Seal. 1860. Lippincott. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2650v.
Warner, Susan. The Children of Blackberry Hollow. Philadelphia,: American Sunday-School Union, 1861.
---. Hymns for Mothers and Children. Boston,: Walker Wise, 1861.
---. The Little Nurse of Cape Cod. Philadelphia, New York,: American Sunday-school union, 1863.
---. The Golden Ladder : Stories Illustrative of the Eight Beatitudes. London: J. Nisbet & Co.
Ballantyne and Co.), 1863.
---. The Old Helmet. 1864. R. Carter. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2648v.
Warner, Susan.Melbourne House. 1864. R. Carter. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2647v.
Warner, Susan. Queechy / by Elizabeth Wetherell ; with Illustrations Printed in Colours. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1864.
Warner, Susan.Casper. Ellen Montgomery's Book Shelf. New ed. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1865.
---. Robinson Crusoe's Farmyard, or, Stories and Anecdotes of Animals : Illustrating Their Habits. Philadelphia: Davis Porter & Coates, 1866.
Warner, Susan. The Word. Walks From Eden. New York,: R. Carter & Bros., 1866.
---. The House of Israel. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1867.
Warner, Susan, et al. Daisy Continued from "Melbourne House". 1868. Lippincott. Available: http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-2645v.
Warner, Susan, Anna Bartlett Warner, and William Howland. Carl Krinken : His Christmas Stocking. New York: Robert Carter and Brothers No. 530 Broadway, 1868.
Warner, Susan, Robert Carter & Brothers., and John Wilson and Son. Little Jack's Four Lessons. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1869.
Warner, Susan. Opportunities. A Sequel to "What She Could." New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1871.
---. "What She Could." New York,: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1871.
The House in Town. A Sequel to "Opportunities." New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1872.
Warner, Susan. Lessons on the Standard Bearers of the Old Testament. N.Y.,, 1872.
---. Trading: Finishing the Story of "the House in Town," &C. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1873.
The Little Camp on Eagle Hill. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1874.
Warner, Susan.The House in Town : A Sequel to "Opportunities". New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1874.
Warner, Susan. Willow Brook. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1874.
---. The Flag of Truce. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1875.
---. Bread and Oranges a Story. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1875.
---. Sceptres and Crowns a Story. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1875.
Warner, Susan, and Anna Bartlett Warner. The Gold of Chickaree. New York,: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876.
Warner, Susan. The Rapids of Niagara a Story. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1876.
Warner, Susan, and Anna Bartlett Warner. Wych Hazel. New York,: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876.
Warner, Susan. Diana a Novel. New York,: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877.
---. Pine Needles : A Story. New York: R. Carter and Brothers, 1877.
---. The Kingdom of Judah. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1878.
---. The Broken Walls of Jerusalem and the Rebuilding of Them. New York: Robert Carter and bros., 1879.
---. My Desire. New York,: R. Carter and Brothers, 1879.
---. The End of a Coil. New York,: R. Carter and Brothers, 1880.
---. Nobody. New York,: R. Carter & Brothers, 1882.
---. The Letter of Credit. New York,: R. Carter and brothers, 1882.
---. Nobody. New York,: R. Carter & Brothers, 1883.
Warner, Susan. Stephen, M.D. New York,: R. Carter & Brothers, 1883.
---. A Red Wallflower. New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1884.
---. Daisy Plains. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1885.
Warner, Susan. The Christmas Stocking. Philadelphia,: H. Altemus Company, 1903.
Warner, Susan M. Pen Pictures Taken from Life. Louisville: C.T. Dearing Printing Co., 1906.
Warner, Susan and Anna Bartlett Warner.Constitution Island; Compiled for the Meeting of the Garden Club of America. Newburgh, N.Y.,: Moore printing co. inc., 1936



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