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Ladies in Waiting
1919
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Three stories of love worth waiting for from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, together in the same volume for the first time with chapter artwork from Charles Dana Gibson and Charles E. Brock! Miss Thomasina Tucker Beautiful songstress Tommy Tucker arrives in Europe with dreams of making it big as an independent woman, but discovers that the love of a good man may be what she needed all along. Huldah the Prophetess A bewitching girl risks losing the love of her life due to her superstitious ways. A Cathedral Courtship Kitty Schuyler and John Copley find unexpected romance on a tour of England's cathedral towns, but must come up with creative ways to see each other without arousing the suspicions of Kitty's forbidding spinster Aunt Celia. Bonus Content: Introduction, Preface by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Chapter Artwork Legacy Vintage Collection enhanced ebooks have been professionally edited and professionally formatted for your favorite e-reader. Visit us at The Vintage Reader!

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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author · 21 books

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 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 (1886), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

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