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Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge



Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes (1831–1905), U.S. children's author who founded and edited the magazine St. Nicholas (1873). She is best known for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (1885), a classic of children's literature.



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