Dodge knew many famous writers, and was able to persuade them to submit their work to her magazine. Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy" first appeared as a "St. Nicholas" serial, beginning in the November 1885 issue. Her novella "Sara Crewe" appeared in the December 1887 issue. Other novels to be serialized in "St. Nicholas" were Louisa May Alcott's "Eight Cousins" and Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer Abroad". Dodge asked Rudyard Kipling to do a fiction series, and he sent her the "Jungle Book" stories.