The Trouble with Dreiser: Harper and the Editing of Jennie Gerhardt
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Genius, The , 16

suppression of, 50n7

Glyn, Elinor

Three Weeks , 40

Gordinnier, M. E., 28–29, 117, 212

Greg, W. W., 11–12

genteel tradition/audience, 16, 22, 34, 48, 54, 112, 178, 198, 211

H. T. Coates and Company, 28

Hardy, Thomas, 34, 41, 43–44, 49

Jude the Obscure , 43, 49

Harper and Brothers Publisher, 14, 39, 41–45, 48–49, 88–89, 143

family and moral values, 41–43, 143

financial problems, 44–45, 88

Harper, Fletcher, 41–42

Harper, J. Henry, 41–43

Harper, James, 41

Harper, John, 41

Harper, Wesley, 41

Harper's Bazar (1867–1913), 152

Harper's Magazine , 41, 43, 45

Harper's Weekly , 40

Harvey, George M., 45, 88

Hitchcock, Ripley, 7, 30, 35–38, 45–49

Editing of Jennie Gerhardt , 36–38, 45–49

Holly, Flora Mai, 32

Huneker, James, 8, 35, 212

immigrant

American hostility, 99, 110–112, 133

anti-German sentiment, 112

association with church, 98–100

attitudes towards children, 99–100, 123

authority of the father, 101–102

business ethics, 94–95, 114n1

isolation and linguistic challenges, 117–118, 121

in literature, 112–113

racial impurity, 133–134

stereotypes, 134

J. F. Taylor and Company, 25–27, 30, 212

negotiations to publish Jennie Gerhardt , 25–26

J & J Harper, 41

Jennie Gerhardt

Barrett typescript, 13–14, 37

fair copy document, 13

ur-manuscript, 13, 20n4

Jewett, Rutger P., 25–26, 33, 212

Kenton, Edna, 31

McClure, Phillips and Company, 25

MacMillan and Company, 35

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 43, 48–49

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 3, 6, 9, 34–37, 53, 57, 92, 94, 185

monopolies. See capitalism

mother

education of, 177–178

ideal, “good,”, 133, 139–141, 154n2, 171, 177–178

Morgan, J. Pierpont, 151, 180

association with Anthony Comstock and YMCA, 179

censorship of the arts, 179

financial relationship with Harper and Brothers Publisher, 45, 88–89

House of Morgan, 88–89