Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey 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 and her mother Jane Andrews, and author and poet Gamel Woolsey was her niece.
Her family moved to New Haven Connecticut in 1852.
Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War, 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 and The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney.
She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did. 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; 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.
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
- 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
- 1883: A Round Dozen
- 1884: Toinette and the Elves
- 1885: A Little Country Girl
- 1886: One Day in a Baby's Life
- 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
- 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
- 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 The Little Corporal, April - August 1871
- 1874: How St. Valentine Remembered Milly, St. Nicholas, February 1874
- 1875: The Cradle Tomb at Westminster, Scribner's Monthly, October 1875
- 1876: Toinette and the Elves, St. Nicholas, Jan 1876
- 1877: The Two Wishes, A Fairy Story, St. Nicholas, March 1877
- 1879: The Old Stone Basin, St. Nicholas, January 1879
- 1880: Kintu Atlantic Monthly, August 1880
- 1882: Concord, Atlantic Monthly magazine, July 1882
- 1887: Lohengrin', Scribner's Magazine, May 1887
- 1888: Charlotte Bronte, St. Nicholas, December 1888
- 1889: A Little Knight of Labor, Wide Awake, September - November 1889
- 1890: Hour of Comfort, Poem, The Illustrated Christian Weekly, November 29, 1890
- 1899: The Better Way, The Indian Helper, November 3, 1899
- 1903: Dr. Johnson and Hodge His Cat, United Presbyterian Youth Evangelist Paper, July 12, 1903
Translations
GermanWenn morgen heute ist..., Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1956 = What Katy DidFinnishKatyn toimet = What Katy DidKaty koulussa = What Katy Did at SchoolKatyn myöhemmät toimet = What Katy Did NextClover = CloverAlppilaakson maja = In the High Walley
NorwegianKaty, den eldste av seks = What Katy DidKaty på skolen = What Katy Did at SchoolHva Katy gjorde siden = What Katy Did NextKaty på reiseKaty hjemmeClara, Katys søster = CloverØientrøst : fortællingHøiendal = In the High Walley
RussianЧто Кейти делала = What Katy DidЧто Кейти делала в школе = What Katy Did at SchoolЧто Кейти делала потом = What Katy Did Next
SwedishKaty i hemmet = What Katy DidKaty i skolan = What Katy Did at SchoolVad Katy gjorde sedan = What Katy Did NextClover : Berättelse för flickor. = Clover
ItalianCio che fece Katy = What Katy Did
SpanishLas cosas de Katy = What Katy Did
PortugueseO que Katy fez = What Katy DidO que Katy fez a seguir = What Katy Did NextOs sonhos de Katy
DanishKaty, den ældste af seks = What Katy DidKaty-bøkerneI Fiesole
- ''Den hemmelige Dør''