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Woolsey, Sarah Channing

author, poet, was born in 1836 in Ohio. She is a poet and popular writer for young people; and a resident of Newport, R. I.

She is the author of Old Convent School in Paris; The New Year's Bargain; What Katy Did; A Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A Short History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush, and Other Stories About Girls; Verses; and A Few More Verses.

WOOLSEY, THEODORE DWIGHT, clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1801, in New York city. He was a congregational clergyman, and president of Yale university in 1846-71. He was the author of Political Science; Communism and Socialism; Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The Religion of the Present and the Future; and Eros, and Other Poems. He died July 1, 1889, in New Haven, Conn.

WOOLSON, MRS. ABBA LOUISA [GOOLD], lecturer, author, was born April 30, 1838, in Windham, Maine. She is a Boston lecturer on English literature; and the author of Woman in American Society; Dress Reform; Browsings Among Books; and George Eliot and Her Heroines.

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE, author, was born in 1848 in Claremont, N. H. She was a novelist whose work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase being her best novel. Her other works include Castle Nowhere; Lake Country Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories; Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; and The Old Stone House.

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