Penelope's Postscripts - Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC "One difficulty about the faithful study of Italian frescoes is that they can never be properly viewed unless one is extended at full-length on the flat of one's honorable back (as they might say in Japan), a position not suitable in a public building." Do you recall the diaries of Penelope? Yes, those -- the ones about her visits to England, Scotland, and Ireland! How they thrilled and amused countless readers when they came out . . . but then Penelope went all quiet, doing things like getting married and raising children. Now, though, Penelope has a little time to…mehr

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BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC "One difficulty about the faithful study of Italian frescoes is that they can never be properly viewed unless one is extended at full-length on the flat of one's honorable back (as they might say in Japan), a position not suitable in a public building." Do you recall the diaries of Penelope? Yes, those -- the ones about her visits to England, Scotland, and Ireland! How they thrilled and amused countless readers when they came out . . . but then Penelope went all quiet, doing things like getting married and raising children. Now, though, Penelope has a little time to tour again, and oh, how she likes to scribble about it. Here, dear reader, are her adventures in Europe, delivered with bons mots and panache. And what of her pals Salemina and Francesca? Indeed, they are here. Along with Switzerland, Italy, Wales and Devon, and the most rewarding place of all: Home. Read on, dear reader. Read on!
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator, author, and composer who lived from September 28, 1856, until August 24, 1923. She also created collections of children's songs in addition to writing children's books, most famously the classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In San Francisco, she established the city's first free kindergarten in 1878. (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). She also started a kindergarten teacher training program in the 1880s with her sister. In an era when kids were often seen as cheap labor, Kate Wiggin dedicated her whole life to the welfare of kids. Wiggin traveled to California to research kindergarten instruction. She started teaching in San Francisco with the help of her sister Nora, and the two were crucial in establishing more than 60 kindergartens for the underprivileged in Oakland and San Francisco. She relocated from California to New York, and because she was out of kindergarten assignments, she focused on literature. Her submissions of The Story of Patsy and The Bird's Christmas Carol were immediately accepted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. She had storytelling ability in addition to being a good singer, guitarist, and composer of settings for her poems. She was a skilled orator as well.