Horace Elisha Scudder

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Horace Elisha Scudder


Born
in Boston, The United States
October 16, 1838

Died
January 11, 1902


Horace Elisha Scudder (1838-1902) was a prolific American man of letters and editor. He graduated from Williams College in 1858, taught school in New York City, and subsequently, removing to Boston, he devoted himself to literary work. He is now best known for his children's books and the editorship he held of The Atlantic Monthly. He published the Bodley Books (1875-87) and was also an essayist, and produced large quantities of journalism that was printed anonymously. He was a correspondent of Hans Christian Andersen, and biographer of James Russell Lowell. He also edited The Riverside Magazine. Scudder also prepared, with Mrs. Taylor, the Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor (1884) and was series editor for the extensive American Commonwealt ...more

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The Book of Legends

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Noah Webster

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George Washington: An Histo...

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The Book of Fables and Folk...

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Verse and Prose for Beginne...

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A History of the United Sta...

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Men And Manners In America ...

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The Bodleys on Wheels

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The Bodleys Telling Stories

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Doings Of The Bodley Family...

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