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WHAT KATY DID ?
Twelve year old Katy Carr is the oldest of six children. Cared for by their Doctor father and Aunt Izzie, the Carr children are impulsive and outgoing, liking rowdy play and imaginative games.
Disobeying her Aunt's order not to use the family's new swing, Katy suffers serious consequences when the swing breaks and she falls. Katy is paralyzed by her accident and forced to spend four years confined to her room. Over the course of these four years, Katy learns patience and responsibility as she works to maintain her place in the hearts of her siblings and her connection with her family and friends.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
The niece of Theodore Dwight Woolsey (President of Yale). She attended boarding school in New Hampshire, and then served as a nurse during the US Civil War. After writing for periodicals under the name "Susan Coolidge", she produced a book of short stories, A New-Year's Bargain, and then a series of juvenile novels, the most remembered of which are What Katy Did and various sequels. In addition to this work she edited the letters of Fanny Burney and Jane Austen, and authored several volumes of poetry. Woolsey never married, and resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death.
Twelve year old Katy Carr is the oldest of six children. Cared for by their Doctor father and Aunt Izzie, the Carr children are impulsive and outgoing, liking rowdy play and imaginative games.
Disobeying her Aunt's order not to use the family's new swing, Katy suffers serious consequences when the swing breaks and she falls. Katy is paralyzed by her accident and forced to spend four years confined to her room. Over the course of these four years, Katy learns patience and responsibility as she works to maintain her place in the hearts of her siblings and her connection with her family and friends.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
The niece of Theodore Dwight Woolsey (President of Yale). She attended boarding school in New Hampshire, and then served as a nurse during the US Civil War. After writing for periodicals under the name "Susan Coolidge", she produced a book of short stories, A New-Year's Bargain, and then a series of juvenile novels, the most remembered of which are What Katy Did and various sequels. In addition to this work she edited the letters of Fanny Burney and Jane Austen, and authored several volumes of poetry. Woolsey never married, and resided at her family home in Newport, Rhode Island, until her death.