Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
described her reading at nine years old as a mixture: George Eliot
and children's writers like Richmal Crompton
and Susan Coolidge (Sarah Woolsey
): Just William, What Katy Did, The Mill... |
Education | Kate Clanchy | As a child KC
loved Victorian stories for girls—Frances Hodgson Burnett
's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
(or Susan Coolidge)'s What Katy Did, and Louisa May Alcott |
Education | Elizabeth De la Pasture | Though almost nothing is known of EDP
's education, she wrote later that her early favourite reading was American. The heroines of Louisa May Alcott
's Little Women were her oldest and dearest friends. She... |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
Education | Constance Smedley | With her sister, CS
began her education at home with her mother as teacher. She read Shakespeare
at four years old, and later learned the violin. She and Ida were concert-goers from an early age... |
Education | J. K. Rowling | Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later... |
Health | Rumer Godden | At seven RG
fell from a swing while doing something dangerous for a dare: relating this story, she likens herself to the protagonist of Susan Coolidge's classic novel for children, What Katy Did... |
Publishing | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's novel What Diantha Did—whose title refers to the popular girls' story What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
)—was published serially in her own journal, the Forerunner. Kessler, Carol Farley. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings. Syracuse University Press, 1995. 289 Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press, 1985. 64 |
Reception | Hannah More | Some later women writers added to critique on Coelebs. The novel is disrespectfully summarised in Susan Coolidge
's What Katy Did at School, where a character falls asleep over it. Waldron, Mary, and Hannah More. “Introduction”. Coelebs in Search of a Wife, Thoemmes Press, 1995. xxix-xxx |
Reception | Mary Anne Barker | The Times, reviewing Sybil's Book in late 1873, found it both delightful and thoroughly original. qtd. in Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 185 |
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