Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude and who struggles to survive the brutal environment of the Bowery, a New York City slum, at the end of the nineteenth century.
The work was considered risqué by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes.
Crane's unflinching depiction of the devastating environmental forces that ultimately destroy this young woman was celebrated as one of the most important works of American Naturalism.