A Tribute To St. Nicholas: A Magazine For Young Folks.
St. Nicholas was launched in 1873, and it appears to have been popular with readers and contributors alike:
St. Nicholas was one of the first children’s magazines that did not insist that kids learn overt, severe lessons about being good, or what happens when you are bad. Certainly both sexes were encouraged to be studious, truthful, and polite; good “manly” behavior was encouraged in boys, and “good girls” were those who were ladylike and practiced charity and patience, while children who were bad ultimately suffered the consequences and learned the error of their ways. And certainly didactic prose was not totally absent from its pages. However, these lessons was done in a more natural method than youngsters being smote by the Will of God or devoured by wild beasts.. . . .
A very long “short list” of other frequent contributors (PLEASE NOTE: The titles in parentheses are those the writer is most well known for, not necessarily stories that appeared in St. Nicholas.):
• William Cullen Bryant
• Ellis Parker Butler (”Pigs is Pigs”)
• Susan Coolidge (What Katy Did)
• Richard Harding Davis (”Gallegher,” “The Bar Sinister”)
• Emily Dickinson
• J. Frank Dobie
• Eugene Field (”The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat”)
• Edward Everett Hale (”The Man Without a Country”)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (”A White Heron”)
• Charles Kingsley (Westward Ho!)
• Sidney Lanier
• James Otis (Toby Tyler)
• John Bennett (Master Skylark)
• James Whitcomb Riley
• Cornelia Meigs (Invincible Louisa)
• Alice Hegan Rice (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch)
• Christina Rossetti (”Who Has Seen the Wind?”)
• Ernest Thompson Seton (Wild Animals I Have Known)
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Mark Twain
• John Greenleaf Whitter
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House books)
• Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
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