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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
Mary Mapes Dodge (1838-1905) played literary fairy godmother to
thousands of American children. She began as one of the pioneers in
juvenile writing with Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates during her two
decades in Newark and continued as the editor of the children's periodical,
St. Nicholas. For three generations her books and magazine were as indispensable to a well-rounded childhood as a Fauntleroy suit or a Buster
Brown haircut. Equally essential to the experience of youths were the hundreds of "seventy-five centers," especially the Rover Boys series by Edward L. Stratemeyer (1862-1930) of Newark. Edith Bishop Sherman of
South Orange later expanded the juvenile field by using events in the
growth of the State for background in her stories.
Besides exercising a notable influence upon American literary standards
as editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years, Henry Mills Alden (1836-
1919) of Metuchen gave ample evidence of his own ability as a writer in
three published volumes -- God in His World, A Study of Death, and
Magazine Writing and the New Literature. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-
96) of Nutley was also a magazine editor who achieved success in author-
ship, his output comprising a quantity of graceful vers de societe, two
novels, and several volumes of short stories.
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), who lived in Summit after
1888, wrote graceful critical essays and charming myths for children. He
was one of the earliest scholars to popularize Shakespeare.
New Jersey claims a literary naturalist and scientific archeologist of
some prominence in Charles Conrad Abbott (1843-1919). Trenton was
his birthplace, and its adjacent countryside his hunting grounds. A few
miles south of the city on the banks of the Delaware was the old Abbott
homestead, "Three Beeches," which he occupied after 1874 and until
the time of his death. His delightful essays on outdoor life found a host
of readers.
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