Kate Douglas Wiggin
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| Born | September 28, 1856 Philadelphia |
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| Died | August 24, 1923 (aged 66) Harrow, Middlesex, England |
| Nationality | American  |
| Occupation | Author |
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator.
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent [1]. 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. For a time, she lived at Quillcote, her summer home in Hollis, Maine. The Tory Hill Meeting House in the adjacent town of Buxton inspired her book (and later play), The Old Peabody Pew (1907). Wiggins founded the Dorcas Society of Hollis & Buxton, Maine in 1897. Quillcote is now a private residence.
She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).
Kate Wiggin died at Harrow, Middlesex, England.
[edit] External links
- Works by Kate Douglas Wiggin at Project Gutenberg
- Teacher resource file
- Bowdoin collection and brief biography
- The Dorcas Society of Hollis & Buxton, Maine
- Kate Douglas Wiggin at the Internet Movie Database
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