Gamel Woolsey

Gamel Woolsey (born Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey; May 28, 1897 – January 18, 1968) was an American poet, novelist and translator. Early life and education Woolsey was born on the Breeze Hill plantation in Aiken, South Carolina as Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey. In later years, she took her middle name which she shortened to Gamel, a Norse word meaning "old". Her father was planter William Walton Woolsey (1842–1909). Woolsey was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the early settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell. The Woolsey branch of the New England Dwight family had influence in the law, the church and education. Gamel's aunt, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey – better known by her pen name, Susan Coolidge – wrote the popular Katy series and other children's fiction. Gamel's half-brother John M. Woolsey was the judge who ruled that James Joyce's Ulysses was not obscene. After the death of her father the family moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where Gamel went to day school. "FORSAN ET HaEC OLIM MEMINiSSE IUVABIT" ("Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to remember even this...")