Merry's Museum

Merry's Museum (1841–1872) was an illustrated children's magazine established by Samuel Griswold Goodrich in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1841.

Louisa May Alcott served as editor for a year or so, and also contributed stories, as did Lucretia Peabody Hale, Caroline Hewins, Rebecca Sophia Clarke, Helen W. Pierson, and others.

[3] At the departure of John N. Stearns, Fuller invited Louisa May Alcott to serve as editor for an annual salary of $500.

She found the offer more attractive than another that came around the same time from publisher Thomas Niles suggesting she write a girls' book (which eventually became the novel Little Women), though she had never written juvenile fiction.

[6] Among the many contributors were Mary Bedford, Katherine Bertha, Emer Birdsey, Kitty Carroll, Margaret Field, Lilian Louise Gilbert, E.B.