American Author, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905), wrote under the pseudonym, Susan Coolidge. During her lifetime, Coolidge wrote poems, stories, children’s stories, and travelogues. The characters in her most famous books, the ‘Katy series’, were loosely based on herself, her three sisters, her brother, and a cousin. This book, ‘Just Sixteen’ is a collection of sixteen short stories. In each story, the author pulls us into a bygone era, and the reader is left with a smile. Each one is a delightful, easy read, and a testament to Susan Coolidge’s writing skills. More information on this fascinating author will be found in the foreward by AlwaysWrite Ent. Many of the books offered by AlwaysWrite Ent. are provided exactly as the author presented them in their original format. All works have been entered, and edited by hand, and not merely scanned. They have been spell-checked, and punctuation corrected where necessary.
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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). She is best known, however, for her classic children's novel, What Katy Did (1872). The fictional Carr family was modeled after the author's own, with Katy Carr inspired by Susan (Sarah) herself, and the brothers and sisters modeled on Coolidge's four younger Woolsey siblings.
