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    What Katy Did
    What Katy Did
    What Katy Did
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    What Katy Did

    Written by Susan Coolidge

    Narrated by Helen Stainer

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    What Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge. It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. When a terrible accident makes her an invalid, her illness and four-year recovery gradually teach her to be as good and kind as she has always wanted. The fictional Carr family was modeled after her own, with Katy Carr inspired by Woolsey herself. The brothers and sisters were modeled on her four younger siblings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    Author

    Susan Coolidge

    Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was born in 1835 into a wealthy and influential family in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War before establishing a career as a successful and prolific writer of novels, short stories and poems. Her most famous book, What Katy Did, published under her pseudonym Susan Coolidge, was inspired by her own childhood growing up with four younger siblings. Its publication in 1872 was followed by four sequels. She never married and lived most of her adult life in Rhode island where she died in 1905.

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