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Stephen Crane didn't start his writing career until he was in college. There he became a "stringer" for his brother's
news service. Crane decided to quit school after finding out that "humanity is a more interesting subject" than the college
curriculum. In 1893, Crane wrote his manuscript of "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" and it was denied by multiple publishers
because of the grim reality that it presents and that it could shock readers. So Stephen Crane decided to publish it at his
own expense and even thought it best to use the pseudonym of Johnston Smith.
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"Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" was a controversial novel by Stephen Crane that is about Maggie who is in a scandal
of a relationship with a barkeep named Pete. Maggie is rejected by the family and after the breakup of the relationship
she was not allowed to return home. Time goes on and the reader is shown an unnamed prostitute that resembles Maggie.
At the end of the story, Jimmie, Maggie's brother gives their mother the news that Maggie's body had been found and she mourns
and says "I'll fergive her!".
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