The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by William Dean Howells et al.
"The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors" by William Dean Howells et al. is a collaborative novel serialized in 1907-08. Twelve different authors each wrote a chapter following a New England family disrupted by their daughter's engagement. What began as William Dean Howells's controlled experiment in literary realism spiraled into chaos when Mary E. Wilkins Freeman transformed a quiet spinster aunt into a vibrant, sexually magnetic woman—enraging fellow contributors and derailing
the planned narrative in unexpected directions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
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| Author | Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, 1860-1936 |
| Author | Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 |
| Author | Brown, Alice, 1857-1948 |
| Author | Cutting, Mary Stewart, 1851-1924 |
| Author | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 |
| Author | James, Henry, 1843-1916 |
| Author | Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947 |
| Author | Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 |
| Author | Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 |
| Author | Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1874-1966 |
| Author | Wyatt, Edith, 1873-1958 |
| Title | The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Family |
| Contents | The father / William Dean Howells -- The old-maid aunt / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The grandmother / Mary Heaton Vorse -- The daughter-in-law / Mary Stewert Cutting -- The school-girl / Elizabeth Jordan -- The son-in-law / John Kendrick Bangs -- The married son / Henry James -- The married daughter / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The mother / Edith Wyatt -- The school-boy / Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews -- Peggy / Alice Brown -- The friend of the family / Henry Van Dyke. |
| Credits | Produced by Dianne Bean, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5066 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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