Maggie

  About the Series
  About This Volume
  List of Illustrations
    
PART I. MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS (A STORY OF NEW YORK): THE COMPLETE TEXT
    
  Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
    
  Chronology of Crane's Life and Times
    
  A Note on the Text
    
  Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)[1893 Edition]
    
PART II. MAGGIE; A GIRL ON THE STREETS (A STORY OF NEW YORK): CULTURAL CONTEXTS
    
  1. In Darkest New York
    Tenement Life
       Harry P. Mawson, "A Hot Wave Among the Poor"
       Alice Wellington Rollins, "The New Uncle Tom's Cabin"
       Alice Wellington Rollins, "The Tenement-House Problem"
       James O.S. Huntington, "Tenement-House Morality"
       Jacob A. Riis, "The Problem of the Children"
       William T. Elsing, From "Life in New York Tenement-Houses"
    Shops, Saloons, Concert Halls
       Julian Ralph, From "The Bowery"
       David Graham Phillips, "The Bowery at Night"
       Stephen Crane, "Where 'De Gang' Hears the Band Play"
       James D. McCabe, "The Beer Gardens"
       George Frederic Parsons, From "The Saloon in Society"
       "Tempting Poor Women: They Buy Beer and Have It Charged as 'Potatoes' ''
       J. W. Buel, From Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or the Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities
    
  2. The Plight of the Working Woman
    Working Woman from the Perspective of Others
       Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt"
       Jacob A. Riis, "The Working Girls of New York"
       Katherine Pearson Woods "Queens of the Shop, the Workroom and the Tenement"
       Jane Cunningham Croly, "Senate Testimony from 'Jennie June' "
       Abraham Hummel and William F. Howe, "Store Girls: Their Fascinations, Fobiles and Temptations"
       Edgar Fawcett, "The Woes of the New York Working Girl"
    Working Women Tell Their own Stories
       "In Employment Offices: Trials of Women Who Look There for Work"
       "Counter Trials: The Shop-Girl Speaks"
       "The Song of the Shirt: How the Finisher Lives"
       "The Embroiderer: Quick Work and Scanty Wages"
       "The Scarf-Maker"
       "The Lace-Maker"
       "The Black-Borderer: A Solemn Kind of Work"
    
  3. "The Painted Cohorts"
       William W. Sanger, From The History of Prostitution
       Charles Loring Brace, "Street Girls"
       Edward Crapsey, "Prostitution"
       J. W. Buel, From Metropolitan Life Unveiled
       U.S. Department of Labor, "Report on Prostitution and the Working Woman"
       Helen Stuart Campbell, "The Case of Rose Haggerty"
    
  4. Realism and Beyond
    Critics and Theorists
       Eugene Véron, From Aesthetics
       Henry James, From The Art of Fiction
       Hamlin Garland, "The Future of Fiction"
       Rupert Hughes, "The Justification of Slum Stories"
       William Dean Howells, From "New York Low Life in Fiction"
    The Fallen Woman and Slum Fiction
       Albert W. Aiken, From The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl
       Harriet Beecher Stowe, From We and Our Neighbors
       Edgar Fawcett, From The Evil That Men Do
       J. W. Sullivan, "Minnie Kelse's Wedding"
    
  Selected Bibliography
    
  Illustrations
    Corwin Knapp Linson, Portrait of Stephen Crane, 1894
    Party at Pendennis Club
    Childe Hassam, Fifth Avenue in Winter, ca. 1890
    Jacob A. Riis, An Old Rear-Tenement in Roosevelt Street
    Broadway Traffic, ca. 1892
    The Atlantic Garden
    Jacob A. Riis, A Growler Gang in Session
    John Slone, Night Windows, 1910
    Will God Forgive Her?
    Cover of 1893 edition of Maggie
    (Hamlin Garland's inscibed copy)