Homespun Tales by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Fiction, Historical, United States, People & Places, Readers - Chapter Books
Rose O' the River is about the river of the title, flowing from the Saco Mountains to the Atlantic, and the effect it has on those who live by it. The Old Peabody Pew is in the Tory Hill Meeting house, which the Dorcas Society strives to keep maintained with slender means, and serves as the place of reunion of Justin Peabody and his sweetheart Nancy Wentworth when he returns home after fruitless efforts to make a place in the world. Susanna and Sue touches upon the lives of the Shaker sect, who vow simplicity, chastity, and holding goods in common, and the difficulties posed for them when young lovers find the rigors of Shaker life too much t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60312-410-2
- EAN: 9781603124102
- Produktnummer: 24942617
- Verlag: Aegypan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 375 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 375
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Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 - 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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