Author Bibliography (in progress)
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
William Dean Howells was born 1 March 1837 in Martinsville, Ohio; he died on 11 May 1920 
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a progressive who engaged with the structural contradictions that produced the radical inequities of Gilded Age America, particularly the contradictions between laissez faire capitalism and the republican ideology of equality. Known as a supporter of civil rights, he famously defended abolitionists like John Brown after the raid on Harper's Ferry (1859) and the accused labor activists of the Haymarket Riot (1886). While the economic dynamics of his literary worlds dominate his writing, most relevant to ethical veg*nism is his sequence of utopian writings that began to appear in late 1892. Known as the Altrurian Romances, the first novel A Traveler from Altruria (1894) was originally serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine from November 1892 to October 1893. This was followed by a sequence of letters published in Cosmopolitan that became Letters of an Altrurian Traveler (1904), and finally Through the Eye of the Needle, which included reworked versions of the last six of the eleven “Letters,” was published in 1907.
The Altrurian utopia against which the US is measured ̶ and found wanting ̶ represents a veg*an Christian socialist utopia where food production and consumption is paradigmatic of social equality. In Altruria, women possess full equal rights and work alongside the men, everyone is educated and cultured, economic equality exists across social classes, and the values of equality and altruism attach to the treatment of species difference as well. Howells does this by attending to the ethical values that determine learned behaviors, like eating.
PUBLICATIONS
The Amigo. William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden, eds. The Heart of Childhood: Harper's Novelettes. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Annie Kilburn: A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.
April Hopes: A Novel. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888.
Between the Dark and the Daylight: Romances. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1907.
Braybridge's Offer. William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden, eds. Quaint Courtships: Harper's Novelettes. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
Certain Delightful English Towns with Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
A Chance Acquaintance. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1874.
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told to Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
The Coast of Bohemia: A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
"A Counsel of Consolation." After Days: Thoughts on the Future Life. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1910.
Criticism and Fiction. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
The Daughter of the Storage, and Other Things in Prose and Verse. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1916. 368 pp
The Day of Their Wedding. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1895.
A Day's Pleasure. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1876.
A Day's Pleasure, and Other Sketches. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881.
Doorstep Acquaintance, and Other Sketches. Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900.
Editha. William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden, eds. Different Girls: Harper's Novelettes. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
"Eighty Years and After." Harper's Monthly Magazine Vol. CXL no. DCCXXXV (December 1919): 21–28.
Familiar Spanish Travels. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1913.
A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1881.
The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
A Foregone Conclusion. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1875.
Heroines of Fiction. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901.
Imaginary Interviews. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1910.
Italian Journeys. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867.
The Kentons: A Novel. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
The Lady of The Aroostook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1879.
The Landlord at Lion's Head. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1897.
The Leatherwood God. New York: The Century Co., 1916.
Letters Home. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900.
Literature and Life: Studies. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902.
London Films. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1905.
The March Family Trilogy:
Their Wedding Journey. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1872.
Their Silver Wedding Journey. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
A Hazard of New Fortunes: A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.
The Minister's Charge: or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886.
Minor Dramas. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1907.
A Modern Instance: A Novel. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881.
Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887.
Monochromes: Nine Poems. Harper’s Vol. 86 (December 1892-May 1893).
Mrs. Farrell: A Novel. Introduction by Mildred Howells. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1921.
My Literary Passions. New York: Harper, 1895.
My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1910.
My Year in a Log Cabin. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
New Leaf Mills: A Chronicle. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1913.
A Pair of Patient Lovers. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901.
Pebbles. Seven Poems. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Vol. 91 issue 544 (September, 1895).
Poems. Boston: Ticknor, 1885.
The Quality of Mercy: A Novel. New York & London: Harper, 1892.
Questionable Shapes. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.
Ragged Lady: A Novel. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899.
The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston: Tiknor & Co., 1885.
Roman Holiday and Others. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1908.
A Sea-Change: or, Love's Stowaway, a Lyricated Farce in Two Acts and an Epilogue. Boston: Ticknor & Company, 1888.
Seven English Cities. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1909.
The Shadow of a Dream: A Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890.
Sketch of the Life and Character of Rutherford B. Hayes. New York & Boston: Hurd and Houghton, 1876.
The Son of Royal Langbrith: A Novel. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1904.
Stories of Ohio. New York & Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1897.
The Story of a Play: A Novel. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.
Suburban Sketches. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871.
Three Villages. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1884.
Tuscan Cities. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1884.
The Vacation of the Kelwyns: An Idyl of the Middle Eighteen-Seventies. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920.
Venetian Life. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866.
The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1908.
A Woman's Reason: A Novel. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., [c1882] 1883.
The World of Chance. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
Years of My Youth. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1916.
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