![]() ![]() ![]() She began to teach in San Francisco with her sister Nora assisting her, and the two were instrumental in the establishment of over 60 kindergartens for the poor in San Francisco and Oakland. Wiggin went to California to study kindergarten methods. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor. With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and composed collections of children's songs. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. ![]() Gorham Female Seminary Morison Academy (Baltimore) ![]()
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![]() ![]() captured the city in a famous novel, Eline Vere. The Hague's greatest writer, turn-of-the-century Louis Couperus. Award-winning translator Ina Rilke's new translation of this Madame Bovary of The Netherlands will reintroduce to the English-speaking world the greatest Dutch novelist of his generation. Only Couperus-as much a member of the elite socialite circle of fin-de-si cle The Hague as he was a virulent critic of its oppressive confines-could have filled this Novel of The Hague with so many superbly rendered and vividly imagined characters from a milieu now long forgotten. ![]() When she accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, she is thrust into a life that looks beyond the confines of The Hague, and her overpowering, ever-fluctuating desires grow increasingly blurred and desperate. Though beloved among her large coterie of friends and relations, there are whispers that she is an eccentric: she has been known to wander alone in the park as well indulge in long, lazy philosophical conversations with her vagabond cousin. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. ![]() Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. ![]() ![]() His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. ![]() His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. ![]() His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what happened, she’s talked him into collaborating on a research project. His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines. Eventually, he’ll retire to putter around in his garden. ![]() He’ll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas welcomes readers back to the picturesque Texas valley that cradles the town of Honey Creek…īenjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his life will play out. This episode is brought to you by Picnic in Someday Valley by Jodi Thomas. ![]() Please don't forget to give us a name and where you're calling from so we can work your message into an upcoming podcast. You can email us at or you can call and leave us a message at our Google voice number: 20. What did you think of today's episode? Got ideas? Suggestions? You can talk to us on the blog entries for the podcast or talk to us on Facebook if that's where you hang out online. Sponsor us through Patreon! ( What is Patreon?) We also have a cool page for the podcast on iTunes. If you like the podcast, you can subscribe to our feed, or find us at iTunes, on Stitcher, or Spotify. ![]() ![]() Описание: Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune by multi award-winning Philip Pullman, is perfect for readers young and old. Название: I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. Fritz is also in the tavern there to read aloud his new spooky story. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. 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In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. ![]() Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of. ![]() In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Movie Groups: Harlan Coben Adaptations Links New. Gone For Good, which actually came out before Stay Close, tells the story of a man is plunged into a dizzying mystery when his girlfriend vanishes, ten years after he lost two loved ones. Gone for Good (TV Miniseries) is a TV Series directed by David Elkam (Creator), Vincent Poymiro. ![]() If you are one of the many who have now completed Stay Close and are now after another Harlan Coben fix, Gone For Good is available to watch in its entirety. 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Hot on the heels of the monumental success of Stay Close, Netflix has another Harlan Coben thriller available to stream - Gone for Good - and viewers have been rushing to binge watch it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only two to actually show up for the experiment are Eleanor Vance and Theodora, who join Montague and Luke Sanderson, who stands to inherit Hill House, at the imposing manor. ![]() Hoping to quietly advance his research away from the prying eyes of his judgmental colleagues, Doctor Montague rents the famed haunted mansion of Hill House for the summer and invites several people from around the country who have, through magazine articles and other records, come to his attention as people with psychic sensitivities. 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