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Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

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Kate (Catharine/Katherine) Dickinson Sweetser (died 1939) was an author of 16 books, and an aunt of Emily Dickinson who wrote of her: "Saying Nothing, My Aunt Katie, sometimes says the most."

Family

Kate's bookplate by Edwin Davis French.
Kate's bookplate by Edwin Davis French.

Father: Samuel Fowler Dickinson

Mother: Lucretia Gunn Dickinson

Brothers:

  • Edward Dickinson (Emily's father)
  • Frederick Dickinson
  • Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Jr.
  • Rev. Timothy Dickinson
  • William Dickinson

Sisters:

  • Elisabeth Dickinson Currier
  • Lucretia Dickinson Bullard
  • Mary Dickinson Newman

Husband: Joseph A. Sweetser

Daughter: Mrs. Edward Winslow

Bibliography

  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1901). Ten Boys from Dickens. New York: R.H. Russell. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1902). Ten Girls from Dickens. New York: J.F. Taylor & Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1903). Micky of the Alley, and Other Youngsters. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1904). Teddy Baird’s Luck, and Other Yarns. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1906). Boys and Girls from George Eliot. New York: Duffield & Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1907). Boys and Girls from Thackeray. New York: Duffield & Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1910). Ten Boys from History. New York: Duffield & Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1912). Ten Girls from History. New York: Duffield & Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1913). Book of Indian Braves. New York, London: Harper & brothers. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1915). Ten Great Adventurers. New York and London: Harper & brothers. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1917). Ten American Girls from History. New York: Harper. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1919). Dining with Dickens at Delmonico's. New York: G.H. Doran Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1923). Amelia Barr and the Novice. New York: G.H. Doran Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1925). Peggy’s Prize Cruise. New York, NY; Newark, NJ: Barse & Hopkins. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1930). Famous Girls of the White House. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 
  • Sweetser, Kate Dickinson (1931). Great American Girls. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 

External links


This biographical information was gathered from the Kate_Dickinson_Sweetser page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Boys and girls from Thackeray
Ten American Girls From History
Ten Boys from Dickens
Ten Girls from Dickens

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