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Edith E. Wiggin
A 19th-century American educator remembered for a practical, long-lived guide to teaching courtesy and everyday behavior. Her work turns manners into something teachable, useful, and closely tied to character.
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Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use
by Edith E. Wiggin
About the author
Born in New York in 1846, Edith E. Wiggin was an American author and educator. She is best known for Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use, first published in 1884, a book that set out to teach children polite behavior in clear, everyday situations.
Rather than treating manners as stiff social rules, her writing presents them as habits that can be learned at home and at school. That practical approach helped the book endure well beyond its original era, and it has remained available in later reprints and public-domain editions.
The Smithsonian notes that Wiggin also published "Vacation Song" in the Journal of Education in 1899. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.