Susan Coolidge (1835–1905)
Auteur de What Katy Did
A propos de l'auteur
Susan Coolidge - pseudonym of Sarah Chauncy Woolsey (1845-1905) - was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent much of her childhood in Connecticut. After serving as a nurse in the Civil War, she took up writing. By chance, her editor was also the editor for Louisa M. Alcott - famous for her Little Women afficher plus books - and it is thought that he suggested Susan Coolidge try the same kind of story. Five books about Katy Carr and her family resulted. afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Sarah Chauncey Woolsey wrote under the pen-name Susan Coolidge.
Séries
Œuvres de Susan Coolidge
KATY CARR Complete Series: What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next, Clover, In the High Valley &… (2013) 10 exemplaires
What Katy Did What Katy Did Next What Ka 6 exemplaires
SUSAN COOLIDGE Ultimate Collection: 7 Novels, 35 Short Stories, Essays & Poems; Including Complete Katy Carr Series… (2016) 3 exemplaires
The Collected Works of Susan Coolidge: 7 Novels, 35 Short Stories, Essays & Poems (Illustrated): What Katy Did Trilogy,… (2017) 2 exemplaires
An old convent school in Paris: And other papers 2 exemplaires
The day's message 2 exemplaires
Little Tommy Tucker 1 exemplaire
WHAT KATY DID SERIES: 5 CLASSIC CHILDREN'S NOVELS,(WHAT KATY DID, WHAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL, WHAT KATY DID NEXT,… 1 exemplaire
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Katy Omnibus, The 1 exemplaire
What Katy Did Collection (What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next, Clover) 1 exemplaire
For summer afternoons 1 exemplaire
What Katy Did Next 1 exemplaire
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 1 exemplaire
Little Roger's Night in the Church 1 exemplaire
Hg̲adal : bert̃telse fr̲ flickor 1 exemplaire
The Katy Carr Series: 5 Classic Children's Books 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 124 exemplaires
She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1997) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Poems in the waiting room : Issue 86 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Coolidge, Susan
- Nom légal
- Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey
- Date de naissance
- 1835-01-29
- Date de décès
- 1905-04-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Newport, Rhode Island, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Newport, Rhode Island, USA - Professions
- children's book author
nurse
editor
poet
girls' school story author - Relations
- Woolsey, Gamel (niece)
- Courte biographie
- Sarah Chaucey Woolsey was born into a wealth and influential New England family living in Cleveland. One of her uncles was Theodore Dwight Woolsey, president of Yale College. The author and poet Gamel Woolsey was her niece. Sarah spent much of her childhood in New Haven after the family moved there. She travelled to Europe in 1870–1872 and then settled with her family in Newport, Rhode Island. She never married. She served as a nurse during the U.S. Civil War and then began to publish her writing, using the pseudonym "Susan Coolidge." She's best remembered for the classic five-volume What Katy Did series, but Susan Coolidge also was a prolific writer of verses and short stories for children. In addition, she edited several works including The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney (1879) and The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney (1880).
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey wrote under the pen-name Susan Coolidge.
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Critiques
My nostalgic return to children's literature continues with this charming story, very much establishing the pattern later adopted by Anne of Green Gables with its episodic format and likable protagonist. I had no idea, incidentally, that the Americans called a bush cricket a 'katydid' - but that's evidently what it is!
I'm sure this is charming, and it caught my attention on Hoopla as a book I'd heard of. I knew nothing about it, not even that it was a children's book. It was written in 1872 and stars 12-year old Katy, though perhaps by the third book in the series, which this is, she is older. I could see it sparkled. But didn't interest me much unfortunately.
A story about a girl who might not be the most obedient person and might not be the best influence on her younger siblings but who is adventurous and imaginative. This tells how she learned a lesson. Its got a nice style to it and good characterization however it gets very moralistic and smaltzey later. I don't normally care about the message a story might have but after i finished this i couldn't help thinking about it and the more i thought about it, the more annoying the story became. So i've taken a bit off the score for that.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 57
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 4,897
- Popularité
- #5,131
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 69
- ISBN
- 486
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 4
Somewhat reminiscent of Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess, and Little Women, this book is full of adventures, high jinks, and mischief that children often get themselves into. It’s mostly lighthearted fun; occasionally they are disobedient, but that is rarely tolerated.
I found this a fun story to read, despite the slow start, and I’m glad I didn’t DNF it, as I was tempted to do!… (plus d'informations)