The whole family : a novel by twelve authors / Various.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.

[Auckland, New Zealand] : Floating Press, 1908.

Summary:

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...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Authors; I The Father - By William Dean Howells; II The Old-Maid Aunt - By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; III The Grandmother - By Mary Heaton Vorse; IV The Daughter-In-Law - By Mary Stewart Cutting; V The School-Girl - By Elizabeth Jordan; VI The Son-In-Law - By John Kendrick Bangs; VII The Married Son - By Henry James; VIII The Married Daughter - By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; IX The Mother - By Edith Wyatt; X The School-Boy - By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews; XI Peggy - By Alice Brown; XII The Friend of the Family - By Henry Van Dyke

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77556-838-5

OCLC:

600112765