Editing Kate Douglas Wiggin (section)

==Later life and death==
Wiggin was an active and popular hostess in New York and in the community of Upper Largo, Scotland, where she had a summer home and where she organized plays for many years, as detailed in her autobiography ''My Garden of Memory.''

In 1921, she and her sister edited an edition of [[Jane Porter]]'s ''[[The Scottish Chiefs]]'', an 1809 novel of [[William Wallace]], for the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series, illustrated by [[N.C. Wyeth]].<ref>Porter, Jane. ''The Scottish Chiefs'', Scribner's Illustrated Classic series, reissued 1991, {{ISBN|0-684-19340-X}}, dust jacket copy</ref> During the spring of 1923, Wiggin traveled to England as a New York delegate to the [[Dickens Fellowship]]. There she became ill and died, at age 66, of bronchial pneumonia. At her request, her ashes were brought home to Maine and scattered over the Saco River.  

Wiggin's autobiography was published after her death. In sorting through material for it, she put many items in a box she and her sister labelled "posthumous", and from these materials her sister later published her own reminiscences of Wiggin, titled ''Kate Douglas Wiggin as Her Sister Knew Her''.

Wiggin was also a songwriter and composer. For "Kindergarten Chimes" (1885) and other collections for children, she wrote some of the lyrics, music, and arrangements. For "Nine Love Songs and a Carol", (1896), she composed all of the music.