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Kate Douglas Wiggin

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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.
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Wiggin was also a songwriter and composer. For "Kindergarten Chimes" (1885) and other collections for children, she wrote some of the lyrics, music, and arrangements. For "Nine Love Songs and a Carol" (1896), she composed all of the music.
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In 1881, Kate married (Samuel) Bradley Wiggin, a San Francisco lawyer. According to the customs of the time, she was required to resign her teaching job. Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first
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in October 1892, July 1893, and July 1894. On the logs for the 1892 trip, Wiggin describes her occupation as "Wife", despite her former husband dying three years prior. In 1893 and 1894, she describes herself as an "Authoress".
499:, was published after her death. In sorting through material for her autobiography, she put many items in a box she and her sister labelled "posthumous". Her sister Nora A. Smith later published her own reminiscences, titled 320:. For the rest of her life she grieved, but she also traveled as frequently as she could, dividing her time between writing, visits to Europe, and giving public reading for the benefit of various children's charities. 347:
Wiggin met dry goods (specifically, linen) importer George Christopher Riggs on her way to England in 1894. The pair are said to have hit it off and had agreed to marry even before the ship docked in England. In the
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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
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Wiggin was an active and popular hostess in New York and in the community of Upper Largo, Scotland, where she had a summer home and where she organized plays for many years, as detailed in her memoir
185:. 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 1462: 495:. There she became ill and died, at age 66, of bronchial pneumonia. At her request, her ashes were brought home to Maine and scattered over the Saco River. Her autobiography, 138:(September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel 1541: 277:
in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873. Although rather casual, this was more education than most women received at the time.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Wiggin's first husband's distant cousin, Eric E. Wiggin, published updated versions of some books in Kate Douglas Wiggin's
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and her father's death. Kate and her sister Nora were still quite young when their widowed mother moved her little family from Philadelphia to
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After the marriage she continued to write under the name of Wiggin. Her literary output included popular books for adults; with her sister,
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on March 30, 1895, at All Souls Church. George Riggs soon became one of Wiggin's biggest advocates as she became more successful.
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assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and
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Kate Wiggin had no children. She moved to New York City in 1888. When her husband died suddenly in 1889, Kate relocated to
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Many of Kate Douglas Wiggin's novels were made into movies. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of her books is the
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Wiggin went to California to study kindergarten methods. She began to teach in San Francisco with her sister
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of lawyer Robert N. Smith, and of
417: 1142: 492: 414:(1911) were adapted to the stage. Houghton Mifflin collected her writings in 10 volumes in 1917. 240: 934: 879: 360:, the two sign their names next to each other, indicating their closeness. The pair married in 1447: 1404: 1344: 1284: 1172: 1120: 770: 1354: 251:. There Kate matured in rural surroundings, with her sister and her new baby brother Philip. 1413: 1314: 1091: 801: 310: 491:. During the spring of 1923, Kate Wiggin traveled to England as a New York delegate to the 1346:
American Authors: A Hand-book of American Literature from Early Colonial to Living Writers
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In 1873, hoping to ease Albion Bradbury's lung disease, Kate's family moved to
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descent. Kate experienced a happy childhood, even though it was colored by the
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Emma Marwedel, 1818–1893 : pioneer of the kindergarten in California
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and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free
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series. He later published his own addition to the series, entitled,
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a
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Mielewczik, Michael; Jowett, Kelly; Moll, Janine (2019).
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A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope's English Experiences
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The Story Hour. A Book for the Home and Kingergarten
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The Story Hour: a book for the home and kindergarten
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Gorham Female Seminary; Morison Academy (Baltimore)
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(1905). 1108: 865:Kate Douglas Wiggin as Her Sister Knew Her 813:The Talking Beasts: a book of fable wisdom 798:The Arabian Nights: their best-known tales 501:Kate Douglas Wiggin as her Sister Knew Her 29: 18: 1301:"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm", Loyal Books 739:Golden Numbers: a book of verse for youth 1395:Woman of the Century/Kate Douglas Wiggin 1359:The Intelligence: A Journal of Education 1303:, Source explaining Eric's contributions 571:A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story 401:(1903), as well as the 1905 best-seller 115:Bradley Wiggin, George Christopher Riggs 1067: 331:at least three times. Records from the 1453:Bowdoin collection and brief biography 1440:, with 146 library catalog records 1410:Works by or about Kate Douglas Wiggin 1355:"Living Authors: Kate Douglas Wiggin" 1191:"Kate Douglas Wiggin Collection M187" 1157:(1st ed.). 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Index

Wiggin depicted in "A Woman of the Century"
A Woman of the Century
Philadelphia
Harrow
Middlesex

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
kindergarten
San Francisco
Nora
Oakland
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Kate Douglas Wiggin House
Hollis, Maine
Welsh
American Civil War
Portland, Maine
Hollis
Charles Dickens
dame school
Baltimore, Maryland
Abbot Academy
Santa Barbara, California
Emma Marwedel
The Story of Patsy
The Birds' Christmas Carol
Houghton Mifflin
Maine
Liverpool

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