A Red Wallflower

Susan Warner, born Elizabeth Wetherell, is distinguished as a 19th-century American author renowned for her didactic and sentimental novels. Born on July 11, 1819, in New York, Warner also penned works under the pseudonym 'Elizabeth Wetherell.' Her literary career was marked by her debut novel, 'The Wide, Wide World' (1850), which gained immense popularity and is considered one of the first domest...