Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A girl grows up in a Bowery tenement between a drunken mother and a brother who fights for standing, meets a bartender with a good coat, and is finished off by the respectability of everyone around her. Crane was twenty-one and could not place it; he printed it himself under a false name and could not sell that either. It is one of the first American novels to look straight at the slums without arranging a moral at the end. Fifty plates by Courbet and Daumier and their contemporaries follow the same streets, markets, and working women Crane put on the page.
A girl grows up in a Bowery tenement between a drunken mother and a brother who fights for standing, meets a bartender with a good coat, and is finished off by the respectability of everyone around her. Crane was twenty-one and could not place it; he printed it himself under a false name and coul...
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Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister, wrote Maggie at twenty-one and printed it himself when no one would touch it, and imagined the Civil War so exactly in The Red Badge of Courage that veterans asked which battles he had fought in. He had seen none; afterwards he went to Cuba and Greece as a correspondent to find out. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-eight.
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister, wrote Maggie at twenty-one and printed it himself when no one would touch it, and imagined the Civil War so exactly in The Red Badge of Courage that veterans asked which battles he had fought in. He had seen none; afterwa...
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