biography
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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née Smith
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| lived:
| (1856–1923)
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| biography:
| Writer and educator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Raised in Maine, where her widowed mother moved to, she attended various schools in the NE before moving to California (1873) with her mother and stepfather. She took a course to be a kindergarten teacher, and from 1877 was active in the operation of kindergartens and promoting the kindergarten movement in California. She married in 1881, moved to New York City (1884), and after her husband's death (1889) she began to concentrate on writing. Among her many books for children, her best known are Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) and Mother Carey's Chickens (1911). She also wrote some books for adults drawing on her many trips to Europe, and with her sister, Nora Smith, she wrote a book about the kindergarten movement, The Republic of Childhood (3 vols, 1895–6). |
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