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The Village Watch-Tower
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The Village Watch-Tower is a collection of short stories by Kate Douglas Wiggin depicting rural New England life and its ordinary people. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century American regional fiction and the work of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, in 1878. With her sister Nora during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. 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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