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WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS (1856-1923)

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Date: 19960101
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was a U.S. educator and author. She was born Kate Douglas Smith, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in New England, attending school in Andover, Massachusetts. While still in her teens, she moved to California and began teaching school.

In 1878, Wiggin and her sister, Nora Smith, started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco. They also wrote a book on kindergarten theories and, in 1880, founded a training school for kindergarten teachers. Wiggin's best-known stories are Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), which was later made into a ...

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