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Kate Douglas Wiggin

(Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin)

(1856 - 1923)

About Kate Douglas Wiggin

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Golden Numbers

Pinafore Palace

The Girl and the Kingdom

Novels

The Story of Patsy (1883)
A Summer in a Canon (1889)
Polly Oliver's Problem (1893)
A Cathedral Courtship (1893)
Timothy's Quest (1894)
Marm Lisa (1896)
Penelope's Progress (1898)
Penelope's Irish Experiences (1901)
The Diary of a Goose Girl (1902)
Penelope's English Experiences (1902)
Half-A-dozen Housekeepers (1903)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
The Affair At the Inn (1904)
A Village Stradivarius (1904)
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland (1906)
Rose O' the River (1907)
New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)
Finding a Home (1907)
Susanna and Sue (1909)
The Old Peabody Pew (1910)
Mother Carey's Chickens (1911)
The Story of Waitstill Baxter (1913)
Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy (1914)
Penelope's Postscripts (1915)
The Girl and the Kingdom (1915)
The Romance Of A Christmas Card (1916)
Rebecca (1917)
Ladies-in-waiting (1919)
Girl Scouts Learn to Carry On (1923)
The Quilt of Happiness (1924)
Love By Express (1924)
More about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1930)
The Flag Raising (2004)

Omnibus

Cathedral Courtship / Penelope's English Experiences (1895)
Black Beauty / Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (2000) (with Anna Sewell)

Collections

Chapbooks

Foreroom Rug (1998)

Anthologies edited

The Story Hour (1890) (with Nora A Smith)
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales (1909) (with Nora A Smith)
The Fairy Ring (1910) (with Nora A Smith)

Non fiction

Children's Rights: And Others (1892) (with Nora A Smith)
A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912) (see Charles Dickens)
My Garden of Memory (1923)
The Concord School of Philosophy (1923)
A Thorn in the Flesh (1926)
A Thanksgiving Retrospect (1928)
The New Book of Martyrs (2003)

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