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Rh another remarkable success. Her third volume, "Roger Hunt"' (Boston. 1892). is pronounced her best book. Mrs. Woolley's literary connections are numerous. For two years she served as president of the Chicago Woman's Club, an organization of nearly five-hundred members, devoted to literary culture and philanthropic work. She is a member of the Fortnightly, a smaller, but older, social and literary organization of women. For a year she was president of the Woman's Western Unitarian Conference, and she is especially interested in that line of work, having sensed as assistant editor of "Unity." the western Unitarian paper, whose editor is Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Much of her work has been done on the platform, lecturing before women's club> and similar onganizations.

WOOLSEY, Miss Sarah Channcey, poet, known to the world by her pen-name "Susan Coolidge," born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845. She is descended from noted New England families, the Woolseys and Dwights, of Connecticut. Her father was the brother of President Theodore Dwight Woolsey. of Yale. She received a careful education, but her literary work did not begin till 1871. She has contributed many excellent poems and prose sketches to the newspapers and magazines, and her productions are widely quoted. She has published two volumes of verse: "Verses," in 1880, and "A Few More Verses," in 1889. She has contributed to various periodicals. Some of her best known poems are "Influence," "When?" "Commissioned," "Benedicam Domino," "The Cradle Tomb," "Before the Sun," and "Laborare Est Orare." Her "Katy-Did" series is best known of her juvenile books. She has also published "A Short History of Philadelphia." a translation of Theophile Gautier's "My Household of Pets," and edited the life and letters of Mrs. Delany and Madame D'Arblay in an abridged form. Her home is in Newport. R. I.

WOOLSON, Mrs. Abba Louise Goold, author, born in Windham., Me., 30th April, 1838. She is the daughter of William Goold, the well-known author of "Portland in the Past" (1866), and of several papers in the "Collections" of the Maine Historical Society, of which he was for many years corresponding secretary. Miss Goold was reared and educated in Portland. Me., where she was graduated in the high school for girls in 1856. In that year she became the wife of Prof. Moses Woolson, the principal of that school. They lived in Portland until 1862, and there Mrs. Woolson began to publish poems. Her first sonnet was published in 1856 in the New York "Home Journal." and she contributed to that journal occasionally. In 1859 she began the publication of an anonymous series of poems in the Portland "Transcript." which attracted much attention. She contributed for four years to that journal and to the Boston "Transcript." She served for a short time as professor of belles-lettres in the Mt Auburn girls' school, and afterwards went with her husband to Concord. In 1868 they removed to Boston, where her husband was professor in a high school, and where she now lives. She contributed a notable essay, entitled "The Present Aspect of the Byron Case," to the Boston "Journal," which drew general attention to her. She soon afterward began to publish her work in volumes. She has given courses of lectures on "English Literature in Connection with English History," "The Influence of Foreign Nations Upon English Literature" and "The Historic Cities of Spain." She is a member of several literary and benevolent societies, and has served as president of the Castilian Club, of Boston. In 1871 she went to Utah, and there interviewed Brigham Young for the Boston "Journal." Her other published works include "Women in American Society" (1872), "Browsing Among Books" (1881) and "George Eliot and Her Heroines" (1886). She edited "Dress Reform," a series of lectures by women physicians of Boston on "Dress as It Effects the Health of Women" (1874). She aids liberally the charities of her city.

WOOLSON, Miss Constance Fenimore, author, born in Claremont, N. H., in 1848. She is the daughter of Charles Jarvis Woolson and Hannah Cooper Pomeroy Woolson. Her mother was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper, and a woman of literary talents of a high order. While Constance was a child, the family removed to Cleveland, Ohio.

She was educated in a young ladies' seminary in Cleveland, and afterward studied in Madame Chegar>'s French school in New York City. Her father died in 1869. She soon afterward began to use her literary talents. In 1873 she removed with her mother to Florida, where they remained until 1879. In that year her mother died, and .Miss Woolson went to Europe. Of late years she has lived in Italy, but she has also visited Egypt and Greece. Her first books were two collections of short stories, called, respectively, "Castle Nowhere "and "Rodman the Keeper." Her first novel, "Anne," appeared as a serial in "Harper's Magazine" in 1881. Her later novels have been "For the Major" (1883); "East Angels" (1886); "Jupiter Lights" (1889). And a fourth will appear in "Harper's Magazine" in 1893. During the past few years she has spent a part of her time in England Some of her widely known single poems are "Me Too!" "Tom," and Kentucky Belle," which have been much used by elocutionists.

WORDEN, Miss Sarah A., artist, born in Xenia, Ohio, 10th October, 1853. Her father was a New Englander, of Puritan stock, and her