Fiction · 1893
Maggie
A Girl of the Streets
Maggie Johnson grows up in a brutal Bowery tenement with an abusive, drunken mother and brother, and her one hope for escape, an affair with the charming bartender Pete, ends when he abandons her, leaving her to a fate the novel makes plain without ever quite naming.
Stephen Crane self-published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in 1893 under the pseudonym Johnston Smith after publishers rejected its subject matter; it was reissued under his own name in 1896 following the success of The Red Badge of Courage.
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1871–1900 · Victorian
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was born in Newark, New Jersey, the fourteenth child of a Methodist minister. He published Maggie: A Girl of the Streets at his own expense in 1893 and The Red Badge of Courage in 1895, then worked as a war correspondent in Greece and Cuba; the shipwreck on the way to Cuba became “The Open Boat”. He died of tuberculosis in Germany at twenty-eight.
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