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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

St. Nicholas (1873–1940), monthly magazine for children, was long distinguished for the high quality of its fiction, and its realization that a children's magazine should not “be a milk-and-water variety of the periodical for adults,” or a place for “sermonizing” or “wearisome spinning out of facts.” In addition to Mary Mapes Dodge, the editor (1873–1905), contributors included Rebecca Harding Davis, D. G. Mitchell, Trowbridge, Louisa May Alcott, Frank Stockton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. E. Carryl, Edward ...

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