Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,'' and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.Wiggin went to California to study kindergarten methods. She began to teach in San Francisco with her sister Nora assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and Oakland. She moved from California to New York, and having no kindergarten work on hand, devoted herself to literature. She sent ''The Story of Patsy'' and ''The Bird's Christmas Carol'' to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. who accepted them at once. Besides the talent for story-telling, she was a musician, sang well, and composed settings for her poems. She was also an excellent elocutionist. Her first literary work was ''Half a Dozen Housekeepers'', a serial story which she sent to ''St. Nicholas''. After the death of her husband in 1889, she returned to California to resume her kindergarten work, serving as the head of a Kindergarten Normal School. Some of her other works included ''Cathedral Courtship'', ''A Summer in a Canon'', ''Timothy's Quest'', ''The Story Hour'', ''Kindergarten Chimes'', ''Polly Oliver's Problem'', and ''Children's Rights''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Pinafore Palace; a book of rhymes for the nursery. by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Rose o' the river, by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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My garden of memory: an autobiography, by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The village watch-tower. by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The fairy ring, by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Bluebeard : a musical fantasy / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The affair at the inn / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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A cathedral courtship, and Penelope's English experiences / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Marm Lisa / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Penelope's English experiences / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Penelope's progress : being such extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her experiences in Scotland / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The village watch-tower / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Rose o' the river / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Homespun tales : Rose o' the river, the old Peabody pew, and Susanna and Sue / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Finding a home / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The diary of a goose girl / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Penelope's Irish experiences / by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Mother Carey's chickens / by Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958, Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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The Scottish chiefs, by Porter, Jane, 1776-1850
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