Educated at a district school in Philadelphia, Gorham Female Seminary in Hollis, Maine, the Morison Academy in Maryland and the Abbott Academy in Massachusetts, Wiggin moved with her family to California in 1873. There she took a position as a director of a private kindergarten. Together with her sister Nora, she established the California Kindergarten Training School. In 1881, she married the lawyer, Samuel B. Wiggin. In 1884, they moved to New York. Her first book, The Story of Patsy, was published in 1883. After her husband died in 1889, she returned to Hollis, Maine and began to devote her efforts to writing. Timothy's Quest, was published in 1890 and was later made into a silent movie. In 1895, she remarried. Her most popular work, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), was also made into a film. Wiggin is best remembered for her children's literature, although she also wrote adult novels. Her other works include The Village Watch-Tower (1895), Penelope's Progress (1898), The Diary of a Goose Girl (1902), Rose O' The River (1905), The New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907), Mother Carey's Chickens (1911), The Story of Waitstill Baxter (1913), The Romance of the Christmas Card (1919) and her autobiography My Garden of Memory (1923). |
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