Sarah chauncey woolsey biography
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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)
Sarah Chauncy Woolsey [1], who wrote under the name Susan Coolidge, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 29, , into a family related not only to Jonathan Edwards and Governor Winthrop, but also to three presidents of Yale: Sarah's great-uncle, Timothy Dwight; her uncle, Theodore Dwight Woolsey; and her cousin, Timothy Dwight.
Her childhood and adolescence provided the material for her most famous children's books, the "Katy" series.
Sarah chauncey woolsey biography
According to Frances C. Darling, the Woolsey family home in Cleveland -- five acres, complete with "a pasture with a brook in it and butternut trees and four cows" [2] -- served as the setting for the Carrs' home in What Katy Did, and the Carr children were loosely modeled on Sarah Woolsey and her siblings.
Sarah, the eldest, "was uncommonly tall, just [like] Katy Carr, quick-witted, impulsive and full of imagination" (). Her sister Jane, "small and fair with lovely blue eyes," () became Clover in the sto