Primary Works

The Wide, Wide World, 1851; Queechy, 1852; Carl Krinken: His Christmas Stocking, 1854; The Hills of Shatemuc, 1856; Say and Seal (with Anna Warner), 1860 (includes the famous hymn "Jesus Loves Me"); The Old Helmet, 1863; Melbourne House, 1864; Walks from Eden, 1866; Daisy, 1868; Sceptres and Crowns, 1875; Diana, 1877.

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Barstow, Jane M. One Hundred Years of American Women Writing, 1848-1948: an Annotated Bio-Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997.

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

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

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

Foster, Shirley. What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of "Classic" Stories for Girls. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1995.

Hiatt, Mary P. Style and the "Scribbling Women": an Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth Century American Fiction. Westport: Greenwood, 1993.

Hovet, Grace Ann, and Theodore R. Hovet. "TABLEAUX VIVANTS: Masculine Vision and Feminine Reflections in Novels by Warner, Alcott, Stowe, and Wharton." ATQ 7.4 (1993): 335-56.

Kelley, Mary. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. NY: Oxford UP, 1984.

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

Noble, Marianne. The masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000. PS147 .N63

Oates, Joyce Carol. "Pleasure, Duty, Redemption Then and Now: Susan Warner's Diana." American Literature 59.3 (1987): 422-427.

O'Connell Catharine. "'We Must sorrow': Silence, Suffering, and Sentimentality in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World." Studies in American Fiction 25 (1997): 21-39.

Sanderson, Dorothy H. They Wrote for A Living: A Bibliography of the works of Susan Bogert Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner. Washingtonville: Spear, 1976.

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." Essays in Literature 11.1 (1994): 1-16.

Tompkins, Jane. "Susan Warner (1819-1885)." Legacy 2.1 (Sprg 1985): 14-15.

- - -. "Afterword." The Wide, Wide World. by Susan Warner. NY: Feminist, 1987. 584-608.

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

Williams, Susan S. "Widening the World: Susan Warner, Her Readers, and the Assumption of Authorship." American Quarterly 42.4 (Dec 1990): 565-586.

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