10 Facts About Horace Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder was an American man of letters and editor.

Horace Scudder's siblings included David Coit Scudder and Samuel Hubbard Scudder, and his niece was scholar and reformer Vida Dutton Scudder.

Horace Scudder graduated from Boston Latin School alongside Henry Adams in 1854.

Horace Scudder published the Bodley Books and was an essayist, and produced large quantities of journalism that was printed anonymously.

Horace Scudder was a correspondent of Hans Christian Andersen and biographer of James Russell Lowell.

Horace Scudder edited Riverside Magazine For Young People, where several Andersen fairy tales were published for the first time.

Horace Scudder may have been most famous for his 1884 work A History of the United States of America Preceded By a Narrative of the Discovery and Settlement of North America and of the Events Which Led to the Independence of the Thirteen English Colonies for the Use of Schools and Academies, which long set the standard for American history textbooks.

Horace Scudder served as editor of the prestigious The Atlantic Monthly from 1890 to 1898.

Only a couple months into his role as editor, on August 28,1890, Horace Scudder received from William Dean Howells a submission written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Horace Scudder's cremated remains were buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.