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Title: The Whole Family
A Novel by Twelve Authors

Author: William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan, John Kendrick Bangs, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, Henry Van Dyke

Release Date: February, 2004 [EBook #5066]
Posting Date: June 13, 2009

Language: English

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THE WHOLE FAMILY,

A NOVEL BY TWELVE AUTHORS

By William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse,
Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan, John Kendrick Bangs, Henry
James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman
Andrews, Alice Brown, Henry Van Dyke

CONTENTS

I. The Father by William Dean Howells
II. The Old-Maid Aunt by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
III. The Grandmother by Mary Heaton Vorse
IV. The Daughter-in-Law by Mary Stewart Cutting
V. The School-Girl by Elizabeth Jordan
VI. The Son-in-Law by John Kendrick Bangs
VII. The Married Son by Henry James
VIII. The Married Daughter by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
IX. The Mother by Edith Wyatt
X. The School-Boy by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
XI. Peggy by Alice Brown
XII. The Friend of the Family by Henry Van Dyke

THE WHOLE FAMILY

I. THE FATHER, by William Dean Howells

As soon as we heard the pleasant news--I suppose the news of an
engagement ought always to be called pleasant--it was decided that I
ought to speak first about it, and speak to the father. We had not been
a great while in the neighborhood, and it would look less like a bid
for the familiar acquaintance of people living on a larger scale than
ourselves, and less of an opening for our own intimacy if they turned
out to be