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 The Descendant written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vein of Iron written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ellen Glasgow considered Vein of Iron, published in 1935, to be her best work. "No novel has ever meant quite so much to me," she wrote a friend. The critics agreed; the book was favorably reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and outsold all but one other work of fiction in the year of its publication." "Opening in the years just before the First World War and laid in the Valley of Virginia, the book traces the experience of a family with four generations of strong women. Faced with a crisis when the bread-winner, a philosopher-minister, is defrocked for his unorthodox views, the women provide the "vein of iron" which carries the family through removal to Richmond (Queensboro in the book), through war and depression until the final return to the mountains."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Battle Ground written by Ellen Glasgow and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a richly detailed historical romance that provides a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century life in the American South, with a sweeping perspective that considers the challenges facing the working classes, the landed gentry, and everyone in between. An engrossing read for anyone who likes to learn from their romance fiction reads!
Download or read book The Shadowy Third and Other Stories written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Glasgow's 'The Shadowy Third and Other Stories' is a haunting and thought-provoking collection of short stories. Featuring seven tales, the first four are spine-tingling ghost stories that will keep readers on edge. In 'The Shadowy Third', the narrator, Miss Randolph, must unravel the mystery surrounding Mrs. Maradick's haunted visions, while 'Dare's Gift' tells the tales of two women whose actions lead to devastating consequences. Other stories explore themes of infidelity and memory in early 20th-century society. With richly drawn characters and intricate plots, this collection showcases Glasgow's mastery of the short story form and is a must-read for fans of the genre.
Download or read book Barren Ground written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wheel of Life written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1906 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the lives of a New York poet, Laura, her socialite friend from childhood, Gerty, and their various acquaintances, including a publisher and several members of their families and social set."--Goodreads.com.
Download or read book The Virginia Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow limited Barren ground written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Woman Within written by Ellen Glasgow and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print and now brought back with a substantial and provocative feminist introduction, The Woman Within is a haunting and carefully crafted revelation of a major novelist's inner life. Placed in the context of current discussions of women's autobiography, the Ellen Glasgow who worked on The Woman Within from around 1934 until her death in 1945 speaks strongly - and surprisingly sympathetically - to readers today.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Dorothy McInnis Scura and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of critical approaches - including semiotic, intertextual, and biographical - these fifteen essays cover the full range of Glasgow's writings, from well-known novels such as Virginia, Barren Ground, and The Sheltered Life to less familiar works such as The Battle-Ground, The Wheel of Life, the verse collected in The Freeman and Other Poems, and the short stories.
Download or read book Of Ellen Glasgow written by James Branch Cabell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phases of an Inferior Planet written by Ellen Glasgow and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though many of her novels are set in her native state of Virginia, writer Ellen Glasgow also had an abiding fascination with the bohemian and intellectual circles of New York City, which form the backdrop of her second book, Phases of an Inferior Planet. Aspiring opera singer Mariana Musin moves to New York to make it big, but an unexpected romance changes the course of her life.
Download or read book They Stooped to Folly written by Ellen Glasgow and published by Wilson Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel explores the relationships, amorous and otherwise, of the Littlepage family of Virginia. The men are courtly but weak; the women have Women's Liberation iron in their veins. The central female figure, Mary Victoria, drives her husband away and then turns her attention to her unborn child.
Download or read book The Freeman and Other Poems written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glasgow Effect written by Ellie Harrison and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.
Download or read book Ellen Glasgow written by Susan Goodman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With such critically acclaimed and best-selling novels as Barren Ground, The Sheltered Life, Vein of Iron, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) established herself as one of America's most talented, dedicated, and influential writers. Chronicling the struggles of a fallen South, she pioneered a poetic realism that influenced a generation of southern writers (Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner among them) and shaped the course of American letters. In Ellen Glasgow: A Biography, Susan Goodman vividly brings to life the famously secretive writer, penetrating the myths, half-truths, and lies that have swirled around Glasgow since the publication of her first novel, The Descendent, in 1896. Drawing on previously unpublished papers and personal interviews, Goodman uncovers the engrossing details of Glasgow's family history, social milieu, personal tragedies, and literary career.
Download or read book The Romantic Comedians written by Ellen Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
