The Katy series is a set of novels by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, writing under the pen-name of Susan Coolidge.
Two further novels, Clover (1888) and In the High Valley (1890), focused upon other members of the eponymous character's family.
[1]: 20 [2][3][4]: 13 Foster and Simmons argue for its subversion of gender in their book What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of ‘Classic’ Stories for Girls by suggesting the series “deconstructs family hierarchies”.
[4]: 13 [5]: 348 In a 1995 survey, What Katy Did was voted as one of the top 10 books for 12-year-old girls.
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