Susan Warner (1819–1885) was an American novelist. Public information about her personal life is limited. She is known for novels about girls' growth and tests of faith; her representative work, The Wide, Wide World, was an early bestselling girls' novel that circulated widely among American readers and had some influence on later coming-of-age fiction for young women. Her works often center on family misfortune, poverty, and moral choice, with a style that emphasizes sentiment and instruction, stressing the role of perseverance, self-restraint, and religious faith in growing up. One of her works, Daisy, is included here and can be classified as inspirational coming-of-age fiction, continuing her focus on girls' inner lives and character formation. Overall, she is regarded as one of the early representative authors of nineteenth-century American girls' fiction.
