Elizabeth Jordan
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Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Hen
Jordan in 1901
The Whole Family
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The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors is a collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author. This unusual project was conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carrie
Elizabeth Jordan
…first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. Jordan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to William Frank Jordan and Margaretta Garver, and was…
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William Dean Howells thought of the collaborative project in the spring of 1906.
Mary Wilkins Freeman's chapter on the "Old Maid Aunt" was controversial among her collaborators.
First page of the first chapter of The Whole Family as it appeared in Harper's Bazar, December 1907