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Download or read book One Man in His Time written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Glasgow , 1873-1945, American novelist, b. Richmond, Va. In revolt against the romantic treatment of Southern life, Glasgow presented in fiction a social history of Virginia since 1850, stressing the changing social order and the emergence of a dominant middle class and rejecting the outworn code of Southern chivalry and masculine superiority. She spent her entire life in Richmond, Va. Her radicalism was apparent in her first novel, The Descendant (1897), and was sustained through her many subsequent books, including Virginia (1913), Life and Gabriella (1916), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), Vein of Iron (1935), and In This Our Life (1941; Pulitzer Prize). ExcerptStopping midway of the road, Stephen Culpeper glanced back over the vague streets and the clearer distance, where the approaching dusk spun mauve and silver cobwebs of air. From that city, it seemed to him, a new and inscrutable force-the force of an idea-had risen within the last few months to engulf the Square and all that the Square had ever meant in his life. Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings, not the old trees, not even the old memories. Clustering traditions had fled in the white blaze of electricity; the quaint brick walks, with their rich colour in the sunlight, were beginning to disappear beneath the expressionless mask of concrete. It was all changed since his father's or his grandfather's day; it was all obvious and cheap, he thought; it was all ugly and naked and undistinguished-yet the tide of the new ideas was still rising. Democracy, relentless, disorderly, and strewn with the wreckage of finer things, had overwhelmed the world of established customs in which he lived.
Download or read book One Man In His Time novel 1922 By written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South. Born into an elite Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, the young Glasgow developed in a different way from that traditional to women of her class.Due to poor health, she was educated at home in Richmond. She read deeply in philosophy, social and political theory, and European and British literature.She spent her summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia, estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a setting that she used in her writings. Her father, Francis Thomas Glasgow, was the son of Arthur Glasgow and Catherine Anderson. He was raised in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and graduated from Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, in 1847. Glasgow's maternal uncle, Joseph Reid Anderson, graduated fourth in his class of 49 from West Point in 1836. On April 4, 1848, he purchased the Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond. When news of the secession reached Richmond, Anderson promptly joined the Army of Northern Virginia, achieving the rank of general. General Robert E. Lee asked him to return to Tredegar Ironworks to manage the manufacturing on which Lee's victory would depend. Francis Glasgow later managed the Tredegar Iron Works. Glasgow thought her father self-righteous and unfeeling.But, some of her more admirable characters reflect a Scots-Calvinist background like his and a similar "iron vein of Presbyterianism." Her mother was Anne Jane Gholson, born on December 9, 1831, at Needham, Virginia and died on October 27, 1893. She was the daughter of William Yates Gholson and Martha Anne Jane Taylor. She was the granddaughter of Congressman Thomas Gholson, Jr. and Anne Yates, and a descendant of Rev. William Yates, the College of William & Mary's fifth president (1761-1764).Gholson was also a descendant of William Randolph, a prominent colonist and land owner in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He and his wife, Mary Isham, were referred to as the "Adam and Eve" of Virginia. Anne Gholson married Francis T. Glasgow on July 14, 1853, and they had ten children together. Anne Gholson was inclined to what was then called "nervous invalidism"; some attributed this to her having borne and cared for ten children.Glasgow also dealt with "nervous invalidism" throughout her life.[citation needed] As the United States women's suffrage movement was developing in the early 1900s, Glasgow marched in the English suffrage parades in the spring of 1909. Later she spoke at the first suffrage meeting in Virginia.Glasgow felt that the movement came "at the wrong moment" for her, and her participation and interest waned.Glasgow did not at first make women's roles her major theme, and she was slow to place heroines rather than heroes at the centers of her stories.Her later works, however, have heroines who display many of the attributes of women involved in the political movement. Glasgow died on November 21, 1945, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
Download or read book The Wheel of Life written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Glasgow was not only one of the most compelling novelists of America; her work displayed a moral earnestness which caused it to tower above the flood of ephemeral fiction. With such a high aim and with an equipment of literary style, genuine feeling for human character, and an abiding sense of humor - it is no wonder that she advanced to a position where a new novel from her pen was an event of note to all those who take literature seriously. "A profound and dramatic story....'The Wheel of Life' is one of the season's triumphs." -Boston Herald "The best work of an author all of whose books have compelled attention." -New York Evening Post "A strong, serious, purposeful novel." -The Brooklyn Times "Challenges comparison with the best of Mrs. Wharton." -Pittsburgh Gazette "She writes novels. And they are beautiful novels. They interest people as stories pure and simple. They are only incidentally epics. Below all that and above all that is the subtle psychical inference. And this is treated with divination and in broad far-reaching perspectives....This is art, of course. But it is more than art. Just as what she writes is first a story and then is more than a story. Just as she is first an observer and then is more than an observer in becoming a seer." -The Conservator "Indeed one of the most virile of recent novels....A book of such repose and such elevated purpose....She has full, rich powers of expression....Miss Glasgow's warm, vital and decisive imagination has minted things worth remembering....Miss Glasgow has given us one of the loveliest of heroines, and by such delicate touches that we are scarcely aware by what means at what moment she becomes completely alive to us." -The Reader "Ellen Glasgow has ideas, she has temperament, she writes well." -The Springfield Republican "Miss Glasgow's power is in her psychology - she has keen analysis of types and deep sympathy with human struggle that her books show." -The Interior "A clever book and a sympathetic one....The social pictures of New York are in every way admirable." -Daily Mail "The Southern mother transplanted to a New York apartment with her old bits of china and endless knitting work, is a rare study, fit to put beside Jane Austen's best." -The Independent "The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very subtle....Miss Glasgow's talent is well displayed in the book." -The Spectator "There is no question as to the cleverness of Miss Glasgow; the very texture of her writing discovers that to an experienced eye. But she has a psychological fluency which is almost alarming. She will take you through the whole course of a character's thoughts, meditations, and reminiscences, between breakfast eggs, in a dozen pages, and you will be convinced that she is right." -The Athenaeum
Download or read book Virginia 1913 Novel by written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia (1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. This novel, her eleventh, marked a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work-she had written a series of bestsellers before publishing Virginia-in that it attacked, in a subtle yet unmistakable way, the very layer of society that constituted her readership. Also, as its heroine, though virtuous and god-fearing, is denied the happiness she is craving, its plot did not live up to readers' expectations as far as poetic justice is concerned and was bound to upset some of them. Today, Virginia is seen by many as an outstanding achievement in Glasgow's career, exactly because the author defied literary convention by questioning the foundations of American society around the dawn of the 20th century, be it capitalism, religion or racism.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Linda W. Wagner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work. A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background. But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved “beyond convention” to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow’s best novels, then—Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life—came late in her life, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Glasgow’s increased self-assurance as writer and woman led to a far greater awareness of craft. Her style became more highly imaged, more suggestive, as though she wished to widen the range of resources available to move her readers. She became a writer both popular and respected. Her novels appeared as selections of the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and one became a best seller. At the same time she was chosen as one of the few female members of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1942 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life.
Download or read book One Man in His Time 1922 Novel by written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south.Born into an elite Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, the young Glasgow developed in a different way from that traditional to women of her class.[1] Due to poor health, she was educated at home in Richmond. She read deeply in philosophy, social and political theory, and European and British literature.[2] She spent her summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia, estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a setting that she used in her writings. Her father, Francis Thomas Glasgow, was the son of Arthur Glasgow and Catherine Anderson. He was raised in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and graduated from Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, in 1847. Glasgow's maternal uncle Joseph Reid Anderson, graduated fourth in his class of 49 from West Point in 1836. On April 4, 1848, he purchased the Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond. When news of the secession reached Richmond, Anderson promptly joined the Army of Northern Virginia, achieving general's rank. General Robert E. Lee asked him to return to Tredegar Ironworks to manage the manufacturing on which Lee's victory would depend. Francis Glasgow later managed the Tredegar Iron Works. Glasgow thought her father self-righteous and unfeeling.[3] But, some of her more admirable characters reflect a Scots-Calvinist background like his and a similar "iron vein of Presbyterianism
Download or read book Life and Gabriella written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sheltered Life written by Ellen Glasgow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheltered Life stands as one of the most stirring epitaphs to the romantic South in American literature. In the town of Queenborough, Virginia, the Archbalds and the Birdsongs, the two remaining families on Washington Street, hold their ground and attempt to ignore the industrial invasion in the years before the first World War. Told from two perspectives - the wise outlook of elderly General Archbald, a civilized man in an uncivilized world, and the romantic vantage point of Jenny Blair, his impetuous grandchild - the story is a vivid parable of a society in decline. Unaware of the disaster unfolding around them, the two households cling blindly to a dream that has died, as the crumbling of their shelters - religion, convention, and social prejudice - gradually destroys the fragile order of their lives. First published in 1938, The Sheltered Life was hailed by Alfred Kazin as Ellen Glasgow's most moving and penetrating novel. Like Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which it closely resembles in spirit, The Sheltered Life became a haunting study in social decomposition. A modern masterpiece, The Sheltered Life resonates with the charm, courage, vitality, and inevitable tragedy of a proud and vanishing age.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Linda W. Wagner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work. A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background. But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved “beyond convention” to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow’s best novels, then—Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life—came late in her life, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists. Glasgow’s increased self-assurance as writer and woman led to a far greater awareness of craft. Her style became more highly imaged, more suggestive, as though she wished to widen the range of resources available to move her readers. She became a writer both popular and respected. Her novels appeared as selections of the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and one became a best seller. At the same time she was chosen as one of the few female members of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1942 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel In This Our Life.
Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Indoeuropeanpublishing.com. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barren Ground is a 1925 novel by Ellen Glasgow giving an account of 30 years in the life of a woman in rural Virginia: Dorinda Oakley is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion. Dorinda Oakley, daughter of a land‐poor farmer in Virginia, at 20 goes to work in Nathan Pedlar's store. She falls in love with Jason Greylock, weak‐willed son of the village doctor, and forgets her purpose of helping her father to rebuild the farm, but soon before their planned wedding Jason is forced to marry a former fiancée. Bitterly disillusioned and pregnant, Dorinda seeks work in New York City, where she is injured and miscarries in a street accident. She is attended by Dr. Faraday, who later employs her as a nurse for his children. A young doctor proposes to her, but she refuses him, determined to "find something else in life." After her father's death, Dorinda returns to the family farm, which is impoverished and overgrown with broomsedge. Having studied scientific agriculture in New York, she introduces progressive methods, gradually returning the "barren ground" to fertility and creating a prosperous dairy farm. Her mother becomes an invalid after her brother Rufus is questioned for murder, and Dorinda only can rely on the aid of a few farm laborers. After her mother's death, she marries Nathan Pedlar to provide a home for his children, and after he dies, she shelters Jason, now penniless and ill from excessive drinking. He soon dies. (wikipedia.org)
Download or read book Life and Gabriella written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of Miss Glasgow's great novels; it stands out as a fine and capable achievement. There is no doubt that with her fine historic sense, her faithful realism, her infectious humor, her gentle irony, she will rank as one of the first great American novelists." -New York Sun "For it all goes back to that - to Gabriella herself, the finest, most lovable and thoroughly worthwhile heroine it has been our good fortune to meet in many a long day. A real flesh-and-blood woman, not perfect by any means, making mistakes, learning many an enforced lesson, but always normal, optimistic, true and dependable as steel. The book is exceedingly well written; it has humor and pathos, reality, an exceptional insight into character, and a brave and inspiring philosophy of life. It sets a very high standard for the novels of 1916; those that measure up to it will be notable ones indeed." -The New York Times "A Southern girl breaks with her family traditions of genteel poverty and goes into business, but meets with suffering and disillusionment before she works out her salvation....It is a novel of manners and customs." -Publishers Weekly "Sex is the triumphant note of 'Life and Gabriella.' Scarcely a moment in it fails to bring before the reader that overwhelmingly important theme....As a chronicle of a woman 'Life and Gabriella' is filled with reality. The obsession of sex is no stronger in its pages than we find it in the world outside of them, and we follow Gabriella's career with intense interest." -Boston Transcript "Most admirable is the art with which Miss Glasgow catches the social atmosphere and puts it, living and colorful, into these pages. She has never done finer, truer work than these delicate, firm strokes with which she paints the life of Gabriella and her family and friends." -Bookman "The central conception is unique, and it is one of great strength." -The New York Evening Post "Although life deals severely with Gabriella, it never succeeds in making her a victim. This she refuses to be: 'You can't be a victim unless you give in,' says Gabriella, and because courage is her outstanding virtue, she does not give in. She is a southern girl, brought up in traditions of the old school. She marries, as all well-brought-up girls should, and her marriage, insecurely founded on sudden passion, comes to a sudden end. Left to her own resources, with two children dependent on her, Gabriella takes her life in her own hands and makes a success of it. At thirty-eight she is a successful New York business woman, self reliant and independent. Then comes her second love affair and in it her common sense wars with tradition, for the man she loves is not of the 'old school' type. But common sense, with love as its ally, wins, and we leave Gabriella with the feeling that life has done well by her after all." -Book Review Digest "A good example of the careful, assured study of social life and character which marks this novelist's work." -The Times of London "Life did its worst for Gabriella in the way of husband, family and environment, but Gabriella did her best so dauntlessly and with such resource that she forced circumstances into her favor. her unflinching bravery, her gallant buoyancy, are so emphatically her outstanding characteristics that they dwarf her other qualities almost into negation....'Life and Gabriella' is clever, finished, interesting. Ellen Glasgow tells the story in a quizzical, easy vein, frequently witty and always entertaining." -The Bellman
Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of thirty years in the life of a rural Virginia woman, Dorinda Oakley who is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Glasgow - American Writers 33 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Dorothy M. Scura and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reprints contemporaneous reviews of Ellen Glasgow's books as they were published between 1897 and 1943. Book reviews, originally printed in newspapers and other periodicals in this country and in England, tell the story of Glasgow's critical reception during her long and productive career. Nineteen novels as well as a volume of poetry, one of her short stories, and one of criticism, were published during her lifetime. Her first book, published anonymously in 1897, elicited much attention when it was revealed that the author was a young Richmond woman. By the time of the 1943 publication of her volume of literary criticism, A Certain Measure, she was a much-respected and much-honored author, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and other awards.
Download or read book The Battle Ground written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Battle Ground' is a historical romance novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Ellen Glasgow. The story is set in Virginia, and takes place from the plantation era and all the way up to the American Civil War. Central to the story are two families who built their wealth from slavery, the Amblers and the Lightfoots. The Amblers are much more sympathetic to abolishing slavery and staying loyal to the Union, while the Lightfoots' view on the matter is more in line with that of the Confederacy.
