Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Susan Coolidge
Born	(1835-01-29)January 29, 1835 Cleveland
Died	April 9, 1905(1905-04-09) (aged 70)
Pen name	Susan Coolidge
Nationality	American

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

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 Haven Connecticut 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]

• 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

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

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