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magazine for 16 years, starting in 1875. He edited children’s magazines for 30 years, and for most of that time he worked with his wife,
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from 1877 to 1892 and then from 1894 to 1897. In addition, they edited
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was the magazine’s literary editor. Pratt and Farman wed in 1877.
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