Download or read book The Story of Patsy written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin is a heartwarming tale that explores themes of childhood and the conduct of life. Wiggin's narrative is filled with charm and innocence, making it a delightful read for both young and adult audiences. Through the adventures of Patsy, readers are reminded of the joys and challenges of growing up, making it a timeless classic in juvenile literature.
Download or read book The Story of Patsy written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A street urchin enrolls himself in a Kindergatern and he and the teacher both learn about charity and Christian life.
Download or read book The Story of Patsy By Kate Douglas Wiggin written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 labor. Early life: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of lawyer Robert N. Smith, and of Welsh descent.Kate herself experienced a happy childhood, even though it was coloured by the American Civil War and her father's death. Kate and her sister Nora were still quite young when their widowed mother moved her little family from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, then, three years later, upon her remarriage, to the little village of Hollis. There Kate matured in rural surroundings, with her sister and her new baby brother, Philip. From a literary point of view her childhood was most distinctive for her encounter with the novelist Charles Dickens. Her mother and another relative had gone to hear Dickens read in Portland, but Wiggin, aged 11, was thought to be too young to warrant an expensive ticket. The following day, however, she found herself on the same train as Dickens and engaged him in a lively conversation for the course of the journey, an experience which she later detailed in a short memoir, A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912). Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a "dame school", some home schooling under the "capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic" instruction of Albion Bradbury (her stepfather), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873. Although rather casual, this was more education than most women received at the time. Early career: In 1873, hoping to ease Albion Bradbury's lung disease, Kate's family moved to Santa Barbara, California, where Kate's stepfather died three years later. A kindergarten training class was opening in Los Angeles under Emma Marwedel (1818-1893), and Kate enrolled. After graduation, in 1878, she headed the first free kindergarten in California, on Silver Street in the slums of San Francisco. The children were "street Arabs of the wildest type", but Kate had a loving personality and dramatic flair. By 1880 she was forming a teacher-training school in conjunction with the Silver Street kindergarten. In 1881, Kate married (Samuel) Bradley Wiggin, a San Francisco lawyer According to the customs of the time, she was required to resign her teaching job Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first The Story of Patsy (1883), then The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887). Both privately printed books were issued commercially by Houghton Mifflin in 1889, with enormous success....
Download or read book The Story of Patsy written by Kate Douglas Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 labor.
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Download or read book The Story of Patsy written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 labor.
Download or read book STORY OF PATSY written by Kate Douglas Smith 1856-1923 Wiggin and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of Patsy a Reminiscence written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin The Birds Christmas carol The story of Patsy Timothy s quest and other stories written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin Children s Classics Illustrated written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July morning. The rich color of the brick house gleamed and glowed through the shade of the elms and maples. Luxuriant hop-vines clambered up the lightning-rods and waterspouts, hanging their delicate clusters here and there in graceful profusion. Woodbine transformed the old shed and tool-house to things of beauty, and the flower-beds themselves were the prettiest and most fragrant in all the countryside. A row of dahlias ran directly around the garden spot; dahlias scarlet, gold, and variegated. In the very centre was a round plot where the upturned faces of a thousand pansies smiled amid their leaves, and in the four corners were triangular blocks of sweet phlox over which the butterflies fluttered unceasingly
Download or read book The Diary of a Goose Girl written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 labor. Wiggin went to California to study kindergarten methods. She began to teach in San Francisco with her sister Nora Smith assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and Oakland. She moved from California to New York, and having no kindergarten work on hand, devoted herself to literature. She sent The Story of Patsy and The Bird's Christmas Carol to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. who accepted them at once. Besides the talent for story-telling, she was a musician, sang well, and composed settings for her poems. She was also an excellent elocutionist. Her first literary work was Half a Dozen Housekeepers, a serial story which she sent to St. Nicholas. After the death of her husband in 1889, she returned to California to resume her kindergarten work, serving as the head of a Kindergarten Normal School. Some of her other works included Cathedral Courtship, A Summer in a Canon, Timothy's Quest, The Story Hour, Kindergarten Chimes, Polly Oliver's Problem, and Children's Rights
Download or read book The Birds written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. This book was released on 1888 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic Christmas story by the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm features a child as memorable and charitable as Dickens
Download or read book New Chronicles of Rebecca 1907 by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Story of Waitstill Baxter 1913 by Kate Douglas Wiggin written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book New Chronicles of Rebecca 1907 by Kate Douglas Wiggin written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book The Diary of a Goose Girl 1902 by Kate Douglas Wiggin Illustrated Edition written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. 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. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).
