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(born Sept. 28, 1856, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. — died Aug. 24, 1923, Harrow, Middlesex, Eng.) U.S. novelist and a leader of the kindergarten movement in the U.S. After moving to San Francisco she headed the Silver Street Kindergarten (1878), the first free kindergarten on the U.S. West Coast, and helped establish the California Kindergarten Training School. To help support the school she began writing novels for both adults and children. She is best remembered for the children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith),
1856–1923, American author and educator, b. Philadelphia. In San Francisco she organized the first free kindergartens on the Pacific coast (1878) and with her sister established a training school for kindergarten teachers. As part of her teaching career she wrote her first book, The Story of Patsy (1883). The most popular among her many later works for children were The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Timothy's Quest (1890), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), and Mother Carey's Chickens (1911).

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See her autobiography, My Garden of Memory (1923); biography by her sister, Nora A. Smith (1925).

 
Dictionary: Wig·gin  (wĭg'ĭn) pronunciation, Kate Douglas Smith 1856–1923.

American writer of children's books, including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).


 
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1887The Birds' Christmas Carol. Written to earn money for Wiggin's San Francisco Silver Street Kindergarten, one of the first in the United States, the novel is about a child named Carol born on Christmas morning. Carol grows up to be sweet but sickly and dies young but happy after serving a Christmas dinner to her less fortunate neighbors. The popular story, translated into German, Swedish, and Japanese, is said to have sold 750,000 copies.
1903Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The travails of the plucky, precocious Rebecca Randolph, who comes to live with her two maiden aunts, becomes one of the era's biggest-selling books. A sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca, would follow in 1907; the novel would be first successfully dramatized in 1910.
1911Mother Carey's Chickens. Wiggin's story of a widow and her children forced from their home due to financial difficulties proves to be her biggest success following Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

 
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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.

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.

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