Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Susan Coolidge
Born	Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-01-29)January 29, 1835 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Died	April 9, 1905(1905-04-09) (aged 70) Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
Pen name	Susan Coolidge
Occupation	Children's author
Nationality	American
Notable works	What Katy Did (1872)

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.

Background

Woolsey was born on January 29, 1835, into the wealthy, influential New England Dwight family, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was John Mumford Woolsey (1796–1870) and her mother Jane Andrews, and author and poet Gamel Woolsey was her niece. Her family moved to New HavenConnecticut in 1852.^[1]

Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after which she started to write. She never married, and resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death. She edited The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney (1879) and The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney (1880).

She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did (1872). The fictional Carr family was modeled after her own, with Katy Carr inspired by Woolsey herself. The brothers and sisters were modeled on her four younger siblings: Jane Andrews Woolsey, born October 25, 1836, who married Reverend Henry Albert Yardley; Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, born April 24, 1838, who married Daniel Coit Gilman and died in 1910;^[2] Theodora Walton Woolsey, born September 7, 1840; and William Walton Woolsey, born July 18, 1842, who married Catherine Buckingham Convers, daughter of Charles Cleveland Convers.^[1]

Works

Books

Katy Series 1872: What Katy Did or What Katy did at Home 1873: What Katy Did at School 1886: What Katy Did Next 1888: Clover 1890: In the High Valley Single books 1871: New-Year's Bargain 1874: Mischief's Thanksgiving, and other stories 1874: Little Miss Mischief, and other stories 1875: Nine Little Goslings 1875: Curly Locks 1876: For Summer Afternoons 1879: Eyebright 1880: Verses 1880: A Guernsey lily or, How the feud was healed 1881: Cross Patch, and other stories (adaptation of Mother Goose) 1883: A Round Dozen 1884: Toinette and the Elves (originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine)

1885: A Little Country Girl 1886: One Day in a Baby's Life (adaption of French book by M. Arnaud) 1887: Ballads of Romance and History 1887: A Short History of the City of Philadelphia from its foundation to the present time 1889: A Few More Verses 1889: Just Sixteen 1890: The Day's Message (editor) 1892: Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and Boys 1893: The Barberry Bush 1894: Not Quite Eighteen 1895: An Old Convent School In Paris 1899: A Little Knight of Labor (first serialized in Wide Awake) 1900: Little Tommy Tucker 1900: Two Girls 1901: Little Bo-Beep 1902: Uncle and Aunt 1904: The Rule of Three 1906: Last Verses 1906: A Sheaf of Stories

Selected work in periodicals

• 1871 Girls of the Far North (serial) The Little Corporal, April - August 1871
• 1874: How St. Valentine Remembered Milly, (story) St. Nicholas, February 1874
• 1875: The Cradle Tomb at Westminster (poem), Scribner's Monthly, October 1875
• 1876: Toinette and the Elves (A Christmas Story), (story) St. Nicholas, Jan 1876
• 1877: The Two Wishes, A Fairy Story, (story) St. Nicholas, March 1877
• 1879: The Old Stone Basin, (poem) St. Nicholas, January 1879
• 1880: Kintu (poem) Atlantic Monthly, August 1880
• 1882: Concord (poem), Atlantic Monthly magazine, July 1882
• 1887: Lohengrin'(poem), Scribner's Magazine, May 1887
• 1888: Charlotte Bronte, (poem) St. Nicholas, December 1888
• 1889: A Little Knight of Labor (serial), Wide Awake, September - November 1889
• 1890: Hour of Comfort, Poem, The Illustrated Christian Weekly, November 29, 1890
• 1899: The Better Way (poem), The Indian Helper, November 3, 1899
• 1903: Dr. Johnson and Hodge His Cat, United Presbyterian Youth Evangelist Paper, July 12, 1903

Translations

German Wenn morgen heute ist..., Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1956 = What Katy Did Finnish Katyn toimet = What Katy Did Katy koulussa = What Katy Did at School Katyn myöhemmät toimet = What Katy Did Next Clover = Clover Alppilaakson maja = In the High Walley Norwegian Katy, den eldste av seks = What Katy Did Katy på skolen = What Katy Did at School Hva Katy gjorde siden = What Katy Did Next Katy på reise Katy hjemme Clara, Katys søster = Clover Øientrøst : fortælling Høiendal = In the High Walley Russian Что Кейти делала = What Katy Did Что Кейти делала в школе = What Katy Did at School Что Кейти делала потом = What Katy Did Next

Swedish Katy i hemmet = What Katy Did Katy i skolan = What Katy Did at School Vad Katy gjorde sedan = What Katy Did Next Clover : Berättelse för flickor. = Clover Italian Cio che fece Katy = What Katy Did Spanish Las cosas de Katy = What Katy Did Portuguese O que Katy fez = What Katy Did O que Katy fez a seguir = What Katy Did Next Os sonhos de Katy Danish Katy, den ældste af seks = What Katy Did Katy-bøkerne I Fiesole Den hemmelige Dør

Articles on Susan Coolidge

1959: Susan Coolidge, the Horn Book Magazine of books and reading for children and young people. 14 pages in June 1959

References

1. Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (24 October 2006) [1st Pub. 1874]. The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. Vol. 1. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders. p. 288. ISBN 9781981482658.
2. "Obituary"(PDF). New York Times. January 17, 1910. Retrieved February 2, 2011.

External links

• Works by Susan Coolidge at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Susan Coolidge at the Internet Archive
• Works by or about Sarah Chauncey Woolsey at the Internet Archive
• Works by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) at The Online Books Page
• 19th-Century Girls' Series