The Whole Family
 The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) is a collaborative novel told in twelve chapters each by a different author. This unusual project was conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carried out under the direction of Harper's Bazaar editor Elizabeth Jordan who (like Howells) would write one of the chapters herself. Howells' idea for the novel was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family.