Table of Content
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)