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Complete works: With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder
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Childhood in Literature and Art, With Some Observations on Literature for Children; a Study
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Horace Elisha Scudder was an American editor and writer. His biography of George Washington introduced the legend of young Washington and the colt.
Background
Horace Elisha was born on October 16, 1838 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, was the youngest boy in a family of six sons and one daughter, children of Charles Scudder, merchant, a deacon of the Union Church of that city, and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. The fifth son, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, became a distinguished entomologist. The Scudders had lived for generations on Cape Cod; the Coit progenitors included Gov. John Winthrop of Massachusetts.
Education
After preparatory studies in the Roxbury and Boston Latin schools, Horace Elisha Scudder entered Williams College, where he was editor of the Williams Quarterly and graduated in 1858.
Career
Soon after his graduation Scudder went to New York as a teacher of private pupils and a writer of stories for children - collected under the titles Seven Little People and Their Friends (copr. 1862) and Dream Children (1864), both published anonymously. The sympathetic understanding of children and the strain of imagination that marked these stories seemed to foreshadow a career in creative writing; instead, he soon found himself, as he put it in later years, "at the desk of a literary workman. "
His chief work, relating more to books than to magazines, was that of an editor. It began through an early association with Henry O. Houghton, who in 1864 was combining his established business of printing at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachussets, with that of publishing, under the firm name of Hurd & Houghton. In this organization Scudder, having returned from New York to Boston, became a reader of manuscripts and general editorial assistant. With an unswerving loyalty to the Riverside Press and to the succession of firms out of which Houghton, Mifflin & Company emerged in 1880, he held this post for the rest of his busy life.
In 1867 the young firm and the young editor launched a juvenile monthly, the Riverside Magazine for Young People. Scudder's interest in children here found full expression, not only through his own writings, but in the pains he devoted to the excellent woodcut illustrations and to the securing of such contributors as Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Abbott, Frank R. Stockton, and Sarah Orne Jewett
In 1872 he became a member of the firm of Hurd & Houghton, but after three years retired from the partnership in order to apply himself exclusively to editorial duties. His next work - Henry Oscar Houghton; a Biographical Outline (1897). The most popular were the eight juvenile "Bodley Books" of travel produced between 1876 and 1884.
His fugitive writing, which was considerable, dealt chiefly with historical, critical, and biographical topics. From 1890 to 1898 he served "the house" of his devotion as editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
He died at Cambridge, in the house he had occupied for many years.
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Views
Tout bien ou rien, appearing, - his own rule.
Personality
Of average height and inclined to rotundity, Scudder was noticeable in his later years chiefly for his large bushy beard, which once drew from him the characteristic, whimsical confession to a great curiosity to see what he was like underneath it, if only he dared to cut it off.
Interests
Scudder acquired a love for Greek which led to a lifelong habit of reading Homer and other classics - always including the Greek Testament - daily before breakfast.
Connections
On October 30, 1873, Scudder married Grace Owen, of Cambridge, who, with one of their twin daughters, survived him.