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Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. She acquired a good education under private tutors.
In she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In , William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in The daughters of Professor Mapes never went to school. They gained their education at home under the care of tutors and governesses, being carefully trained, not only in the usual English branches, but in French, drawing, music, and Latin.
Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In , William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in A month after his disappearance, his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Dodge became a widow. With her two children, she returned to the family homestead, a large country house near Newark, New Jersey. Here, her life was mainly devoted to her children.
As time went on, she found herself obliged to provide the money for their education. It was for this purpose that she turned to writing. A small cottage or farm-house which adjoined the orchard on her father's estate was confiscated for use as a study, and Dodge and her boys soon transformed it into a cozy "den.
Dodge's first published article, "Shoddy Aristocracy in America," and the manner of its publication, were as much the outcome of her susceptibility to the human, as well as the literary, appeal of life as to her sense of humor and instinct for artistic expression. Because it was based upon personal observation the article was sent to The Cornhill Magazine , of London , as a publication safely removed from the comedy and the actors it presented.
To Dodge's amazement, the article was reprinted in whole or in part by many of the leading newspapers in the United States. Her first short story, "My Mysterious Enemy," was promptly accepted by Harper's Magazine , and "The Insanity of Cain," a brilliant piece of special pleading, and one of her most characteristic essays in the humorous or satirical vein, attained instant popularity at the time of its publication in Scribner's Monthly.
This article grew out of a remark to Roswell Smith when Dodge and he were discussing the recent acquittal of a criminal on the plea of emotional insanity. After the publication in leading magazines of several essays and stories for grown-up readers, Dodge brought out, in , her first book — made up of short tales for children — under the title of The Irvington Stories It was a modest muslin-covered duodecimo , with three or four illustrations by F.
But Dodge, meantime, had begun work upon a longer narrative. Like the rest of the reading world, she had been thrilled and fascinated by the lately-published histories of John Lothrop Motley , the Rise of the Dutch Republic , and the History of the United Netherlands. She resolved to make the Netherlands the scene of a juvenile tale, and give the youngsters so much of the history of that country as should tell itself, naturally, through the evolution of the story. In the heat of kindled imagination, she began to tell her children a story of life in the Netherlands , weaving into it much interesting material from the history of that country, which at that time she had never seen.
The subject grew more and more absorbing to her. She worked upon the manuscript from morning till night, and sought every source of information which could make her pages more true to life or more entertaining to her readers. She ransacked libraries for books upon the Netherlands; made every traveler whom she knew tell her his tale of that country; and submitted every chapter to the test of the criticism of two accomplished Dutchmen living near her.
But the author had nothing else ready, he could not afford to forego the prestige of her former success, and so, reluctantly and doubtfully, he issued the most successful juvenile tale of that time, Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates The French Academy awarded it one of the Montyon Prizes of fifteen hundred francs. In the year , Dodge published Rhymes and Jingles. Three years later, in , she published a book of essays and short stories entitled Theophilus and Others. Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again.
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Mary Mapes Dodge (January 26, – August 21, ) was an American children's author .. Other works by Mary Mapes Dodge readable free online from the University of Florida Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature; Topics. Poet Mary Mapes Dodge was born into an academic family in New York, and was Dodge published the poetry collection Poems and Verses () as well as.
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