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    A Cathedral Courtship
    A Cathedral Courtship
    A Cathedral Courtship
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    A Cathedral Courtship

    By Kate Douglas Wiggin

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    Victorian novel. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 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. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455395668
    A Cathedral Courtship
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    Kate Douglas Wiggin

    Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) was an American educator, author, and advocate who is best known for writing Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. After graduating from kindergarten-teacher training in Santa Barbara, Wiggins moved to San Francisco, where she founded the first free kindergarten on Silver Street in 1878.

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      A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin

      A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974, now offering over 14,000  books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      Children's books by Kate Douglas Wiggin available from Seltzer Books

      The Birds' Christmas Carol

      Cathedral Courtship

      Diary of a Goose Girl

      Flag-Raising

      Homespun Tales

      Marm Lisa

      Mother Carey's Chickens

      New Chronicles of Rebecca

      Penelope's English Experience

      Penelope's Experiences in Scotland

      Penelope's Irish Experiences

      Penelope's Postscripts

      Polly Oliver's Problem

      Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

      Romance of a Christmas Carol

      Story of Patsy

      Story of Waitstill Baxter

      Summer in a Canyon

      Timothy's Quest

      Village Stradivarius

      SHE

      WINCHESTER, May 28, 1891

      The Royal Garden Inn.

      We are doing the English cathedral towns, aunt Celia and I.  Aunt Celia has an intense desire to improve my mind.  Papa told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much improved, and aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted.

      We are traveling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted neither to bend nor break.  It was made out by a young High Church curate in New York, and if it had been blessed by all the bishops and popes it could not be more sacred to aunt Celia.  She is awfully High Church, and I believe she thinks this tour of the cathedrals will give me a taste for ritual and bring me into the true fold.  I have been hearing dear old Dr. Kyle a great deal lately, and aunt Celia says that he is the most dangerous Unitarian she knows, because he has leanings towards Christianity.

      Long ago, in her youth, she was engaged to a young architect.  He, with his triangles and T-squares and things, succeeded in making an imaginary scale-drawing of her heart (up to that time a virgin forest, an unmapped territory), which enabled him to enter in and set up a pedestal there, on which he has remained ever since.  He has been only a memory for many years, to be sure, for he died at the age of twenty-six, before he had had time to build anything but a livery stable and a country hotel.  This is fortunate, on the whole, because aunt Celia thinks he was destined to establish American architecture on a higher plane,--rid it of its base, time- serving, imitative instincts, and waft it to a height where, in the course of centuries, we should have been revered and followed by all the nations of the earth.  I went to see

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