Word: celebrityâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life?childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens?girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity???travel?adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm. She had the happy faculty of making friends as easily with Ellen Terry...
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