Tag: Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Bird’s Christmas Carol
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Birds-Christmas-Carol.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/24/2003 The Bird’s Christmas Carol Transcript In an article in the New York Times, critic Perri Klass, suggests that Victorian fiction in both England and America “drew some of its punch from the juxta- position of poverty and privilege, from the sufferings endured by children […]
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kate-Douglas-Wiggin.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/27/2001 Kate Douglas Wiggin Transcript Toward the end of her life, Kate Douglas Wiggin was named by the San Francisco Examiner as one of the six most distinguished women in the world. She had distinguished herself in two ways: first as a woman who […]