Penelope's Experiences in Scotland

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Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland, by Kate Douglas Wiggin, is described as extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton. The contents list names, among others, A Triangular Alliance, Edina, Scotia’s Darling Seat and Susanna Crum cudna say. Salemina says dryly that she is not a stickler for dates, but that if the girls could only contrive to fix a few periods in their minds, just in a general way, they would not be so shamefully befogged.

John Knox is quoted as recording that the myst was so thick that skairse micht onie man espy another. A verse names the parritch an’ the heather-bell, the snawdrap on the shaw and the bit lam’s bleatin’ on the braes, and asks, How can I leave them a’? A narrator who says I speaks soothingly, saying Let us talk about the lions, and asks when the trouble began.

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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator and novelist who opened one of the first free kindergartens on the West Coast, in San Francisco, and wrote fiction partly to fund her teacher training work. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm carried her name well beyond it.