The Diary of a Goose Girl (Illustrated 1902 Edition)
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).
