LoveReading4Kids Says
A timeless story about a young girl who wants to be sweet natured, good and easy to love. Somehow she never is. Instead, her dress is always torn, her hair is always a tangle and she doesn’t care whether she’s thought good or not. But then Katy has a terrible accident and has time to find out what really matters to her and to change. A trifle moral in parts, this is none-the-less a memorable story about a strong willed but likeable heroine.
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What Katy Did Synopsis
Excerpt from What Katy Did: A Story
Susan coolidge was the eldest of a family Of four girls and a boy. In their home at Newport, Rhode Island, she and her brother and sisters spent an ideally happy childhood. A great part of their hfe was passed out of doors; the grounds surrounding their house comprised meadow, orchard, and woodland, and they seem to have enjoyed greater freedom than was usually permitted to young folk in America seventy or eighty years ago. They had not only plenty of room to romp and play, but as many animal friends as the heart of a child could desire; horses to ride, birds to pet, and dogs to Share their games. And to complete their happiness, a corner of the woodland was allowed to grow wild and given up specially to their use. To the children this was an enchanted land; for the imagination of the elder sister peopled it for them with elves and fairies, fiery dragons, witches and sorcerers, brave knights and gentle ladies. In Paradise, as the children called this favoured spot, the future author of the Katy books, with her little brother and sisters hanging upon her words, made her first essays in romance.
It was many years before she sought a larger audience. Almost as soon as she could write she scribbled poems and stories for her own pleasure and the entertainment Of the family; but, unlike many authors, she seems to have had no desire to get them printed. The exercise of writing was to her its own reward; she had no craving for literary fame, and she was not constrained, like her contemporary and fellow countrywoman, Louisa Alcott, to seek an income from her pen.
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9780266206460 |
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22nd April 2018 |
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Susan Coolidge |
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Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
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Hardback |
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280 pages |
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About Susan Coolidge
Susan Coolidge lived in America from 1835 to 1905. She was born into an upper class family and her real name was Sarah Chauncy Woolsey. She worked as a nurse in the American Civil War and then began her writing career. Her editor was also the editor of Louis M Alcott who was having huge success with her book Little Women. The editor suggested that Susan try her hand at the same kind of family story and the five books about the irrepressible Katy Carr followed. They followed the fortunes and misfortunes of the Carr family, from childhood, through school and travels in Europe, to marriage. The books: What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, What Katy Did Next, Clover and In the High Valley brought fame to Susan Coolidge. The titles of the first three books are a pun on the North American grasshopper-like insect, the katydid, whose noise was not only responsible for its name but inspired Susan Coolidge!
The characters in the books are especially life-like because, without doubt, they’re based on members of the author’s family. Susan herself was tall, quick-witted and impatient – like Katy; Katy’s three sisters are Susan’s three sisters, and Katy’s two brothers are Susan Coolidge’s brother and cousin.
Susan Coolidge devoted her life to her literary and social activities. As well as children’s books, she wrote poetry and edited the letters of Jane Austin and Fanny Burney.
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