Howells introduces this anthology by reflecting on how the American girl became the American novelist’s favourite subject after the Civil War. The stories that follow, by Alice Brown, Octave Thanet, Elizabeth Jordan, Julian Ralph, Richard Le Gallienne and others, show girls at home, in love and at odds with their families, and include Howells’s own ‘Editha’, a sharp tale of war fever.
A small showcase of early twentieth-century American magazine fiction, with one minor classic among its pages. Download the free EPUB.