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 January 29, 1835 into the wealthy, influential New England Dwight family

New England Dwight family

The New England Dwight family had many members who were military leaders, educators, jurists, authors, businessmen and clergymen.Around 1634 John Dwight came with his wife Hannah, daughter Hannah, and sons Timothy Dwight and John Dwight, from Dedham, Essex, England to North America where the town...

, in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

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Her father was John Mumford Woolsey (1796–1870) and her mother Jane Andrews, and author and poet Gamel Woolsey

Gamel Woolsey

Gamel Woolsey was an American poet and novelist.-Life:Woolsey was born on the Breeze Hill plantation in Aiken, South Carolina, as Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey, but in later years took her middle name, which she shortened to "Gamel" .Her father was plantation owner William Walter Woolsey...

 was her aunt.
She spent much of her childhood in New Haven Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

 after her family moved there in 1852.

Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 (1861–1865), after which she started to write. She never married, and resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island

Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...

, 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

What Katy Did

What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, which was published in 1872. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s...

 (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

Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...

 and died in 1910.; 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

Charles Cleveland Convers

Charles Cleveland Convers was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio Senate for two years and a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court for a short time.-Biography:...

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Books

Katy Series

• 1872: What Katy Did
  What Katy Did
  What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, which was published in 1872. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s...
  
   or What Katy did at Home#
• 1873: What Katy Did at School
• 1886: What Katy Did Next
  What Katy Did Next
  What Katy Did Next is a children's book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, working under the pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the stories What Katy Did , What Katy Did At School and tells the adventures of Katy Carr as she travels to Europe.-Plot summary:The book opens by reintroducing the Carr...
  
  
• 1888: Clover
• 1890: In the High Valley

Single Books

• 1871: New-Year's Bargain, The [Tales.], edited by Louisa May Alcott
  Louisa May Alcott
  Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868...
  
  
• 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 [Tales.]
• 1879: Eyebright A story
• 1880: Verses,
• 1880: A Guernsey lily or, How the feud was healed. A story for girls and boys.
• 1881: Cross Patch, and other stories Adapted from the myths of Mother Goose
• 1883: A Round Dozen, by Roberts Brothers
  Roberts Brothers (publishers)
  Messrs. Roberts Brothers were bookbinders and publishers in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1857 by Austin J. Roberts, John F. Roberts, and Lewis A. Roberts, the firm began publishing around the early 1860s...
  
  ; B. J. Parkhill & Co., Printers, Boston, U.S.A.
• 1884: Toinette and the Elves
• 1885: A Little Country Girl
• 1886: One day in a baby's life (adapted from the French book by M. Arnaud, Illustrations by Firmin Bouisset published by Roberts Brothers, Boston 1886. 31 pages)

• 1887: Ballads of Romance and History
• 1887: A Short History of the City of Philadelphia from its foundation to the present time
• 1888: Cross Patch, and other stories Adapted from the myths of Mother Goose
• 1889: A Few More Verses (verse)
• 1889: Just Sixteen
• 1890: The Day's Message Chosen and arranged by Susan Coolidge, Roberts Brothers, Boston
• 1892: Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and Boys
• 1893: The Barberry Bush (short stories)
• 1894: Not Quite Eighteen
• 1895: An Old Convent School In Paris
• 1899: A little knight of labor
• 1900: Little Tommy Tucker
• 1900: Two Girls
• 1901: Little Bo-Beep
• 1902: Uncle and Aunt
• 1904: The Rule of Three
• 1906: Last Verses [With a biographical sketch of the author signed: E. D. W. G.]
• 1906: A Sheaf of Stories
• ????: Twilight Stories (as Contributor),

Short stories, poems and other publications

published during her lifetime

• 1869: The Funeral Flee, Hearth and Home illustrated weekly magazine, Vol 1, No 52, page 824, December 18, 1869
• 1870: poetry in Scribner's Monthly, Vol. I, nos 1-6 Bound Nov 1870-Apr 1871 Scribners, 1870-1
• 1871: Girls of the Far North, part 1; The Little Corporal Magazine Vol. XII, No. 4, April 1871, Published by John E. Miller, Chicago

Girls of the Far North, part 4; The Little Corporal Magazine Vol. XIII, No. 1, July 1871, Published by John E. Miller, Chicago

Edson's mother Scribners Illustrated Monthly, May to October 1871 p.296

• 1872: Two Ways to Love (Poem), scriber's monthly an illustrated magazine for the people, conducted by J.G. Holland, October 1872; Vol. IV, No. 6

In the Book, scriber's monthly, vol. 3, issue 5, page 567-572, 1872

• 1873: the white flag (poem), Scribner's Monthly, May 1873 to October 1873, Volume 6

A few hints on the california journey, Scribner's Monthly, May 1873 to October 1873, Volume 6

• 1874: How St. Valentine Remembered Milly, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Feb 1874
• 1875 Little One's Birthday - A Christmas story, Little Corporal Children's Magazine January 1875 Vol. XX, No. 1, Edited by Emily Huntingston Miller, published by John E. Miller, Chicago, 40 pages

Blue and Pink (A Valentine Story), (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Feb 1875

Queen Blossom (A May-Day Story), (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine May 1875

The Horse and the Wolf, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Jul 1875

The Fortunes of a Saucer Pie, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine Nov 1875

The "Cradle Tomb" at Westminster, by Susan Coolidge (pp. 678-679), scriber's monthly an illustrated magazine for the people, conducted by J.G. Holland

• 1876: Toinette and the Elves (A Christmas Story), (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Jan 1876

The Two Goats, St. Nicholas cribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge

The Little Maid of Domremy, (bg) St. Nicholas Magazine Jun 1876

Ready for Europe, (nF) St. Nicholas Magazine May 1876

How the Storks Came and Went, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Jul 1876

At Fiesole, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Oct 1876

A Queen, and Not a Queen, (bg) St. Nicholas Magazine Nov 1876

The Secret Door (A Christmas Story of Two Hundred Years Ago), (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Dec 1876 (also published in The Golden Pathway Circ.

• 1877: The Two Wishes: A Fairy Story, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Mar 1877

Illustrated Texts, (nF) St. Nicholas Magazine Apr 1877

The Mother in the Desert, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine Jun 1877

Mrs. June's Prospectus, Young Folks' Readings, for Social and Public Entertainment. Edited by Lewis B. Monroe. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. New York: Charles T. Dillingham

• 1878: Solimin: A Ship of the Desert, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine Feb 1878

The Fox and the Turkeys; or Charley and the Old Folks, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine Sep 1878

• 1879: The Old Stone Basin, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Jan 1879

Mignonette, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Jun 1879

Eyebright, (sl) St. Nicholas Magazine Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept(chapter 10), Oct 1879

Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delany, revised from Lady Llanover's Edition and Edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Roberts Brothers, Boston

• 1880: The Boy and the Giant, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine May 1880

The Fox and the Stork, (ss) St. Nicholas Magazine Aug 1880

KintuAtlantic Monthly July to December 1880, p 179

Interpreted (Poem), The Atlantic Monthly, A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art and Politics Volume XLV December 1879 - June 1880

• 1881: In the Tower- AD 1554, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Feb 1881

The Mastiff and His Master, (vi) St. Nicholas Magazine Jun 1881

The Isle of Peace, by Susan Coolidge (pp. 481-498), scriber's monthly an illustrated magazine for the people, conducted by J.G. Holland

• 1882: Concord, Atlantic Monthly magazine from July 1882

Golden-Rod, Purple and Gold, Arranged by Kate Sanborn, Illustrated by Rosina Emmet: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company

Cross Patch pp. 474, The Century Illustrated monthly magazine. November 1881 to April 1882, Vol. XXIII, New Series Vol. I, THE CENTURY CO., NY

New Every Morning in "Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home, and Heaven from Poetic and Prose Literature of all Ages and All Lands." E.B. Treat, New York

• 1884: Lydia Maria Child in Our famous women, Comprising the Lives and Deeds of American Women," by Several Authors, A.D. Worthington and Company 1884

Reply, The Century - Illustrated Monthly Magazine May to October 1884, p. 744

When (poem), pp. 249 ,Illustrated Home Book of Poetry and Song, Caxton Publishing Co., Chicago

• 1885: Uncle and Aunt, llustrated by Jessie Curtis Shepherd, St. Nicholas Magazine Nov 1885

"Who ate the sweetmeat" Christmas hearth library, Boston, D. Lothrop and Company

The Little Christmas Tree, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Dec 1885

• 1886: The Secret of It, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Jan 1886

A Dainty Little Trencherman "The Household" Magazine, Devoted to the interests of the American housewife 1886

• 1887: Lohengrin,SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE May 1887 - Volume I, pp. 614–615

In her garden SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE November 1887 - Volume II, No. 5

Little Alix: a story of the children's Crusade Ballads Of Romance And History. 111 pages, illustrated. Boston D. Lothrop 1887.

A year, verse, Ladies' World New York September 1887 Vol VIII No 9

Little Alix: A Story Of The Children's Crusade, Ballads of Romance and History, Boston, D. Lothrop Company 1887

• 1888: Charlotte Bronte, (pm) St. Nicholas Magazine Dec 1888

Christmas Day, young people's new pictorial library of poetry and prose, published by the Northwestern Publishing Co. in 1888

A Convent School of the Last Century, Atlantic 1888 p. 779

• 1889: A Coming Out illustrated by Graves, Ladies Home Journal Sep 1889

A Little Knight of Labor, Chapter II, with illustration by Edmund H. Garrett, WIDE AWAKE An Illustrated Magazine October 1889, Volume 29 Number 5, (Editors: Charles Stuart Pratt & Ella Farman Pratt, Publishers: D. Lothrop Company, Boston, U. S. A.)

Snowy Peter, Story-Time for 1890, by Various Authors, D. Lothrop Company Publishers, Boston, 1889

• 1990: unknown title, Story-Time for 1890, published by D. Lothrop Company, Boston. Copyright 1889, by D. Lothrop Company

Hour of Comfort, Poem, The Illustrated Christian Weekly, November 29, 1890, Vol XX No 48

• 1891: Poems in Guests Of The Heart, Edited By A. Craig. Augusta, Maine: E. C. Allen 1891
• 1892: How Bunny Brought Good Luck (Bunny is a doll, whose loss leads to the discovery of a lost silver mine). Illustrated by Walter Bobbett. St. Nicholas - An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks. Volume XX. Part 1 November 1892 - April 1893
• 1893: The Wolves of St. Gervas, Famous Stories and Poems edited by D. Lothrop Company, Boston

A Good Bad Horse, Famous Stories and Poems edited by D. Lothrop Company, Boston

a heroic poem, Wide Awake Illustrated Magazine, June 1893, D. Lothrop Company

Angels is as Angels Does, 52 Other Stories for Girls, edited by Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles/Alfred H. Miles was a prolific Victorian author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry Alfred Henry Miles/Alfred H. Miles (1848 - 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian author,...

, published by Hutchinson & Co., London

• 1894: title unknown, R. Tuck Year book 12, 1894
• 1897: Little Ursel’s Mothering Sunday illustraded by Edmund Garrett, The deacon's little maid and other poems of childhood, Lothrop Publishing

Co., Boston

• 1898: Newport Historic Towns of New England Edited by Lyman P. Powell Illustrated with photos, drawings, and maps, New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1898.
• 1899: The Better Way, Poem at head of THE INDIAN HELPER, November 3, 1899
• 1900: Queen Log And Queen Stork (Illustrated by C. M. Relyea),St. Nicholas Magazine for Youth May to October-1900, page 859
• 1901: Thoughts by Susan Coolidge in Thoughts edited by Jessie K Freeman Sarah S. B. Yule, Dodge publishing company, NY, 1901
• 1902: Paradise, Young Folks' Library in Twenty Volumes. Volume VII: School and College Days. Edited by Kirk Munroe and Mary Hartwell Catherwood

unknown poem, The Wedding Day Book with the Congratulations of the Poets arranged by Katharine Lee Bates and published by Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston, 429-pages.

• 1903: Dr. Johnson and Hodge His Cat, United Presbyterian Youth Evangelist Paper, No. 28, July 12, 1903

unknown title, The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children, Chosen and Classified by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co

• 1904: A group of New England dishes furnished by Susan Coolidge, Mary Ronald's CENTURY COOK BOOK 1897 + New York 1904

unknown titel, Little Lassies, Grosset & Dunlap 1904

The Desert Island I and II, published in The Jones Third Reader edited by L. H. Jones, Ginn & Company, Boston, USA 1904

• 1905: Susie's Letter About Chipmonks, Twilight Stories published by Saalfild publishing Co
• undated: God rules the year, A new year's message of love, printed in Berlin, Germany.

12 stories of heroism, Magna Charta Stories. World-Famous Struggles for Freedom in Former Times. Recounted for Youthful Readers Edited by Arthur Gilman, A.M. Published by Blackie and Son Limited

published after her death

• 1907: How the Leaves Came Down, Ladies' Home Journal magazine - November 1907, VOLUME XXIV, EDITION 12
• 1908: How the Leaves Came Down, A Treasury of Verse for Little Children selected by M.G. Edgar Illustrated by Willy Pogany, Published by George G. Harrap & Co., London also in The Wooster Third Reader by Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster, M.A. Published by Wooster & Company - Chicago, Illinois 1915
• 1909: In April, (pm) The All-Story Magazine Apr 1909

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. Introduction by Susan Coolidge 1909

A 4 line verse (THANK God for death : bright thing / with dreary name, / We wrong with mournful flowers her / pure, still brow) in A LITTLE BOOK OF COMFORT, Compiled by Rev. Albert E Sims; THE CHOICE BOOKS LONDON: GEORGE G HARRAP & CO LTD; THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH, GREAT BRITAIN

How the Leaves Came Down (poem), p85, The Ontario Readers Second Book, authorized by the Minister of Education

• 1920: The Cavalier's Escape, The treasure chest of my bookhouse, Edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, Chicago, The Bookhouse for children, Olive Beaupre Miller 1920

The Secret Door, The treasure chest of my bookhouse, Edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, Chicago, The BOOKHOUSE for CHILDREN, Publishers 1920, 448 pages

• 1928: Beginning again, Woman's World September 1928
• 1930 section IV Romance and Reality / My book house the treasure chest 1928)
• 1934: Toinette and the Elves- Christmas, a book of stories ald and new, Selected by Alice Dalgliesh, Illustrated by Hildegard Woodward, published by Charles Scribner, New York

Imogen Comes to Tea, The golden wonder book for children by John R. Crossland & J.M. Parrish, Published by Odhams press LTD 1934

• 1935: Cousin Helen's Visit, The Mammoth Wonder Book edited by John Crossland & J.M. Parrish, London: Odhams Press 1935
• 1937: Christmas boxes, The children's golden treasure book by Odhams Press ltd
• 1???: How the Leaves Came Down, Poem in The Home Book of Verse by Burton Stevenson
• 18??: New Every Morning Poem ("Every day is a fresh beginning! / Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,/ And spite of old sorrow and older sinning / And puzzles forecast and possible pain, / Take heart with the day, and begin again.")
• 1980: Kikeri, published in The Illustrated Treasury of Humor for Children edited by Judith Hendra, Grosset and Dunlap Publishers New York
• 1991: Roses and thorns in School Stories ISBN 0600570967

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

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

External links

• 19th-Century Girls' Series
• German Database to search for translations