Kate Douglas Wiggin
(1856 - 1923)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children’s stories, most notably the classic children’s novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour.
Bibliography
The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales (1909)
Ten of the most famous tales from the Thousand and One Nights, adapted for younger readers. Read online at archive.org.
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
Roger Duvoisin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cornelia Meigs
Mabel L. Robinson
Various
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Henry C. Pitz
Howard Pyle
Keith Ward
Lynd Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Read online at archive.org.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Daniel Defoe
Mary Mapes Dodge
John Ruskin
Mark Twain
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Et al
Fritz Kredel
Jessie Willcox Smith
Et al
Junior Classics Volume 9 (1912)
Short stories and the short novel The Rose and the Ring by W. M. Thackeray, for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Joel Chandler Harris
Edward Verrall Lucas
William Makepeace Thackeray
Various
Stewart Edward White
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Various
Princess Mary’s Gift Book (1914)
An anthology used as a fundraiser by the British royal family. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Rider Haggard
Rudyard Kipling
A. E. W. Mason
Alfred Noyes
Baroness Orczy
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Et al
Gordon Browne
E. J. Detmold
Edmund Dulac
H. R. Millar
Arthur Rackham
Steven Spurrier
Edmund J. Sullivan
Et al
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Read online at archive.org.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1931)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1994)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
The Scottish Chiefs (1921)
A historical novel about William Wallace and the Scots revolt against the English beginning in 1297. Read online at Hathitrust.
Susanna and Sue (1909)
Susanna leaves her neglectful husband to stay with the Shakers, and manages to shake him up. Read online at archive.org.
N. C. Wyeth