Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (pseudonym Susan Coolidge) (F)

Surname: Woolsey
Forename(s): Sarah Chauncey
b. 29 January 1835. d. 9 April 1905. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Children’s writer, poet, editor. Pseudonym: Susan Coolidge. Unmarried. Born in Cleveland, Ohio. Family moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1855. Educated at a boarding school and then the Select Family School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Close friends with Helen Hunt Jackson, with whom Woolsey worked as a nurse during the Civil War. Author of the What Katy Did series. Poetry volumes include Verses (1880), A Few More Verses (1889), Last Verses (1906). Biographical information: ANB. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 1
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Little Alix. A Story of the Children’s Crusade 1888-11 Atalanta Poet 1834