Nicholas became one of the most successful magazines for children during the second half of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 children.ĭodge died at her summer cottage in Tannersville, New York, in 1905. Nicholas Magazine, for she was able to solicit stories from a number of well-known writers including Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. She became an editor in her own right with the children's St. She had charge of the household and children's departments of that paper for many years. Later in life she was an associate editor of Hearth and Home, edited by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which became an instant bestseller. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. She acquired a good education under private tutors. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof.
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