The Whole Family [electronic resource] : A Novel By Twelve Authors
Howells, William Dean
eBook
The collaborative efforts of twelve different authors writing a chapter each, The Whole Family is a 1908 novel conceived of by writer William Dean Howells and directed by Elizabeth Jordan, the editor Harper's Bazaar at the time. Howells' wished to explore how an entire family might both affect and be affected by a marriage. The narrative became somewhat of a mirror for the at-times contentious relationships between its various authors. The chapters and their authors are: The Father by William Dean Howells The Old-Maid Aunt by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Grandmother by Mary Heaton Vorse The Daughter-in-Law by Mary Stewart Cutting The School-Girl by Elizabeth Jordan The Son-in-Law by John Kendrick Bangs The Married Son by Henry James The Married Daughter by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The Mother by Edith Wyatt The School-Boy by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Peggy by Alice Brown The Friend of the Family by Henry Van Dyke
Main title:
The Whole Family [electronic resource] : A Novel By Twelve Authors / William Dean Howells
Author:
Howells, William Dean, AuthorAndrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, AuthorBrown, Alice, AuthorVan Dyke, Henry, AuthorFreeman, Mary E. Wilkins, AuthorVorse, Mary Heaton, AuthorCutting, Mary Stewart, AuthorJordan, Elizabeth, AuthorBangs, John Kendrick, AuthorJames, Henry, AuthorPhelps, Elizabeth Stuart, AuthorWyatt, Edith, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Duke Classics, [date of publication not identified]
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781620112137
Language:
English
BRN:
1044558
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