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In children’s literature: Peaks and plateaus (1865–1940)
…Boy) and the relatively nondidactic St. Nicholas magazine (1873–1939), which exerted a powerful influence on its exclusively respectable child readers. (It is surely needless to point out that up to the 1960s children’s literature has been by and for the middle class). These magazines published the best material they could…
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editorship of Dodge

In Mary Mapes Dodge
…publishing venture, the children’s magazine St. Nicholas. Its subsequent success stemmed from Dodge’s high literary and moral standards. Her editorial excellence enabled St. Nicholas to attract such well-known contemporary writers as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Rudyard Kipling.
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