Susan Coolidge

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born

January 29, 1835 in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

died

April 09, 1905

gender

female

genre

Children's Books

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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.

Woolsey was born January 29, 1835, into the wealthy, influential New England Dwight family in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was John Mumford Woolsey (1796–1870) and mother was Jane Andrews. She spent much of her childhood in New Haven Connecticut after her family moved there in 1852.

Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after which she started to write. The niece of the author and poet Gamel Woolsey, 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)....more

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Books by Susan Coolidge

Average rating: 3.76 · 4,625 ratings · 181 reviews · 40 distinct works

	What Katy Did (Carr Family, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 2,761 ratings — published 1872 — 80 editions	My rating:
	What Katy Did at School (Carr Family, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 1873 — 45 editions	My rating:
	What Katy Did Next (Carr Family, #3) 3.65 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 1886 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Clover (Carr Family, #4) 3.51 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1888 — 26 editions	My rating:
	In the High Valley (Carr Family, #5) 3.35 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1890 — 11 editions	My rating:
	What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Next 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Katy 3 In 1: What Katy Did, What Katy Did At School, What Katy Did Next 4.03 avg rating — 40 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Nine Little Goslings (1876) 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Little Country Girl 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Eyebright (Illustrated Edition) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Susan Coolidge

Carr Family (5 books)
by Susan Coolidge

3.76 avg rating — 4,468 ratings

Quotes by Susan Coolidge

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose houses she went visiting had found this out, and always hid away their story-books when she was expected to tea. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home.”
― Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did

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