Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Kate Douglas Smith), 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Kate Douglas Smith), 1856-1923
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) Mrs. G. C. Riggs, 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) Mrs. G. C. Riggs, 1856-1923
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Wiggins, Kate Douglas Smith
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Bradley, Kate Douglas Smith
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Smith Wiggin, Kate Douglas 1856-1923
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Smith Wiggin, Kate Douglas 1856-1923
Douglas Wiggin, Cate, 1856-1923
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Douglas Wiggin, Cate, 1856-1923
Riggs, G.C. Mrs 1856-1923
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Bradley, Kate Douglas Riggs
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Bradley, Kate Douglas Riggs
Riggs, George Christopher
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Douglas Wiggins, Kate
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Riggs, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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Douglas Wiggin, Kate 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Kate D. 1856-1923
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Smith, Kate Douglas
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ウィギン, K
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Wiggin, Kate D. 1856-1923 (Kate Douglas),
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Wiggin, Kate D. 1856-1923 (Kate Douglas),
Douglas Smith Wiggin, Kate 1856-1923
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Douglas Smith Wiggin, Kate 1856-1923
Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith)
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Wiggin, Samuel Bradley.
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Wiggin, Ket. Duglas- 1856-1923
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Douglas Wiggin, Kate
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Wiggin, Cate Douglas 1856-1923
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Duglas-Wiggin, Ket., 856-1923
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Smith, Kate Douglas 1856-1923
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Riggs, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1856-1923
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Wiggin, Samuel Bradley Mrs 1856-1923
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Riggs, George Christopher Mrs 1856-1923
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American author and educator.
Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There she was trained in the Froebel kindergaren theory and opened Silver St. Kindergarten, the first free kindergarten in the western U.S., in the slums of San Francisco. In 1881 she married Samuel B. Wiggin. The kindergarten was then operated by her sister, Nora Smith, but Kate continued to direct her training school until she and her husband moved to N.Y. in 1884. In 1883 she published her first story. After her husband died in 1889, Kate wrote many more books, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), a children's classic. In 1895 she married George C. Riggs. She died in 1923 in England. (Information from American National Biography online.).
Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a pioneer of the kindergarten movement in the United States in the nineteenth century. She helped to establish the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878, the first free kindergarten in California. She also co-founded the California Kindergarten Training School for aspiring kindergarten teachers in 1880. In addition to kindergarten training and advocacy, Wiggin was a prolific author of books for children, including the well-known Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) and Mother Carey's chickens (1911). Wiggin also published a number of works on kindergarten theory and method as well as fiction for adults. Wiggin's teaching philosophy was based on the writings of Friedrich Froebel, a German educator who established the concept of kindergarten in the 1830s. In her three-volume work on kindergarten philosophy, The Republic of childhood (1895-96), Wiggin modeled her lessons on Froebel's "Gifts and Occupations". These activities were taught to students at her kindergarten training school and resulted in sample books like those in this collection.
Wiggin, British-born but considered an American author, notably of children's stories. Among her noted novels is: Rebecca of sunnybrook farm (1903).
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was an author and kindergarten teacher. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971).
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American author and educator. She was the author of numerous popular children's stories and anthologies, romantic novels for adults, and plays adapted from her stories; her most popular and enduring work was probably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She was an integral contributor to the kindergarten movement in America, establishing the first free kindergarten in California and founding a school for kindergarten teachers.
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