![]() ![]() She began to write short sketches for children, and soon brought out a volume of them, entitled Irvington Stories, (New York, 1864), which was very successful. Īfter the death of her husband, Dodge turned to literature as a means to earn the money to educate her sons. He never had written for children, but he would try. One day, Rudyard Kipling told her a story of the Indian jungle Dodge asked him to write it down for St. ![]() She was able to persuade many of the great writers of the world to contribute to her children's magazine – Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and scores of others. She had the faculty of suggesting, creating, obtaining the contributions she wanted from just the people she wanted to write. Nicholas Magazine for more than thirty years, and it became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies. ![]() She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century. Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (Janu– August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. ![]()
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