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Kate Douglas Wiggin


(Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin)
USA flag (1856 - 1923)

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.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Novels
   The Story of Patsy (1883)
   A Summer in a Canon (1889)
   A Cathedral Courtship (1893)
   Polly Oliver's Problem (1893)
   Timothy's Quest (1894)
   Marm Lisa (1896)
   The Diary of a Goose Girl (1902)
   Half-A-dozen Housekeepers (1903)
   The Affair At the Inn (1904) (with others)
   A Village Stradivarius (1904)
   Finding a Home (1907)
   Rose O' the River (1907)
   Susanna and Sue (1909)
   The Old Peabody Pew (1910)
   Mother Carey's Chickens (1911)
   The Story of Waitstill Baxter (1913)
   Bluebeard (1914)
   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)
   Love By Express (1924)
   The Quilt of Happiness (1924)
   The Flag Raising (2004)
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Collections
   The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887)
   The Village Watch-tower (1895)
   Golden Numbers (poems) (1902)
   Magic Casements (1907)
   Pinafore Palace (poems) (1907) (with Nora A Smith)
   The Posy Ring (1908)
   Creeping Jenny (1917)
   The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin (1917)
   Homespun Tales (1920)
   Tales of Laughter (1934)
   Bird's Christmas Carol / Polly Oliver's problem (1951)
   Beneath Another Sky (1989) (with Rhoda Blumberg and Elizabeth George Speare)
   Verses and Rhymes By The Way (poems) (2004)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Foreroom Rug (1998)
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Anthologies edited
   The Story Hour (1890) (with Nora A Smith)
   The Arabian Nights (1909) (with Nora A Smith)
   The Fairy Ring (1910) (with Nora A Smith)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Kate Douglas Wiggin recommends
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Taming the Beast (2017)
(Tales from St. Giles, book 1)
Andrew Grey
"...flat-out wonderful."
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The Better to See You (2013)
(Transplanted Tales, book 2)
Kate SeRine
"Unique and totally off-the-wall,fun, romantic, suspenseful, oh-my-GAWD enjoyable!"

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