The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) · Henry James (1843–1916) · Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867–1947) · Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) · Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) · John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860–1936) · Alice Brown (1857–1948) · Mary Stewart Cutting (1851–1924) · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) · Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966) · Edith Wyatt (1873–1958)
"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.)