Scudder, Horace
Scudder, Horace (1838–1902),American editor and author. He was a passionate supporter of imaginative literature, at a time when American opinion was uncertain about its value. He wrote three volumes of fairy stories, much influenced by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, George MacDonald, and Charles Dickens, and in his Bodley Family series of books (which began in 1875) incorporated many traditional tales. In 1867 he became editor of the new Riverside Magazine for Young People and later persuaded Hans Christian Andersen to contribute. Childhood in Literature and Art (1894) contains a long essay about fairy tales and Hans Andersen.
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