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New Chronicles of Rebecca, Classics To Go

The "New Chronicles of Rebecca" continues "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Stories about a creative child who is sent to live with rigid relatives in a small town due to the inability of her widowed mother to support her, an onerous mortgage, and her siblings. (Goodreads)

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Kate Douglas Wiggin, (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. With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Birds' Christmas Carol, Polly Oliver's Problem, A Cathedral Courtship, New Chronicles of Rebecca and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.