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Edith E. Wiggin
A 19th-century American educator best remembered for writing a practical, thoughtful guide to teaching children courtesy at home and at school. Her work treats manners not as empty rules, but as part of everyday character and social life.
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Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use
by Edith E. Wiggin
About the author
Edith E. Wiggin was an American author and educator associated with New York. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History identifies her as having been born in New York in 1846 and notes that she is best known for Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use, first published in 1884.
That book is the work she is chiefly remembered for today. It was written as a guide for teaching children polite behavior in ordinary settings, and modern catalog and reading sources such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox continue to preserve and circulate it.
Although not much biographical detail was easy to confirm, her surviving work suggests a teacher’s eye for daily habits, conversation, and conduct. Readers coming to her now will mostly know her through this concise, practical book on manners and moral instruction.