![]() ![]() ^_^ First page of results for Susan Coolidge pseudonym, higher up when I searched for Susan Coolidge pseudonym why. ![]() When the book (actually a collection of short stories) was published in 1871, it met with a favorable reception, earning praise from Jean Ingelow and Christina Rossetti, and so impressed a British publisher that he "ordered plates from Roberts Brothers at once" (Kilgour 108, 292). Woolsey adopted the pseudonym "Susan Coolidge" as an inside joke: her sister Jane had used the pen name "Margaret Coolidge" for some stories, and Sarah decided she would "be a sister of the famous Margaret Coolidge" (Darling 251). Her biographical entry in The Junior Book of Authors notes that she "sketched the outline" while "seated on a fallen tree in a grove". Coolidge had already published several poems and now began serious work on her first book, A New Year's Bargain. ![]() In 1870, Coolidge and Jackson vacationed in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. There, Coolidge met other literary figures, including Thomas Wentworth Higginson. According to " Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)" (2003) by Deidre Johnson:Ĭoolidge continued her friendship with Jackson after the war, and, in the late 1860s, the Woolsey family spent time near Jackson in Newport, Rhode Island. ![]()
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