Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 -November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south. Glasgow was born in Richmond, Virginia, of a mother who traced her ancestry to the Cavalier settlers of Tidewater Virginia and a father who vis mere descended from the Scotch-Irish of the Shenandoah Valley. She was a writer whose divided background helps explain her ability to combine romantic sensibility with tough-minded realism. For the Virginia Edition of her works, published by Scribner in 1938 and now out of print, she chose 12 of her 18 novels and divided them into two main groups. What she called "novels of character and comedies of manners" consist of five works: The Battle-Ground (1902); The Deliverance (1904); They Stooped to Folly (1929); Virginia (1913); and Barren Ground (1925). The remaining seven novels she grouped under the heading "social history in the form of fiction." Covering almost 100 years of life in the Old Dominion, they are perhaps better read in historical sequence rather than the order in which they were originally published: The Miller of Old Church (1911); The Romantic Comedians (1926); The Voice of the People (1900); The Romance of a Plain Man (1909); Life and Gabriella (1916); The Sheltered Life (1932); and Vein of Iron (1935). The new prefaces that she wrote for each volume of the Virginia Edition form a valuable record of her literary growth and a treatise on novel writing that compares favorably with the prefaces that Henry James wrote for the New York Edition of his works. With the addition of an introduction to the one novel she published subsequently, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life (1941), these prefaces were brought together and published as A Certain Measure (1943). The Woman Within (1954), her own story of her inner life, parallels her fiction in its account of a courageous woman who refused to become a victim of the outmoded codes of chivalry and male domination that characterized the Old South of her heritage. She remains a transitional figure of considerable importance in the literary history of America. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Image from Little pilgrimages among the women who have written famous books (1902) by Edward Francis Harkins
Værker af Ellen Glasgow
Beyond defeat; a critical edition 2 eksemplarer
Delphi Complete Works of Ellen Glasgow (Illustrated) 2 eksemplarer
The Old Dominion Edition of the works of Ellen Glasgow 2 eksemplarer
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
The Bent Twig 1 eksemplar
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson Archive 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Written by Herself, Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women (1992) — Bidragyder — 428 eksemplarer
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Bidragyder — 264 eksemplarer
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
What Did Miss Darrington See? : An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction (1989) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Bidragyder — 92 eksemplarer
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 (2020) — Bidragyder — 84 eksemplarer
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Bidragyder — 77 eksemplarer
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Bidragyder — 38 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1922) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Twentieth-Century American Literature (Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism) (1986) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Little Verses and Big Names — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Saturday Review of Literature, Volume VI Number 46: Saturday, June 7, 1930 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
- Fødselsdato
- 1873-04-22
- Dødsdag
- 1945-11-21
- Begravelsessted
- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Dødssted
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Bopæl
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
Bumpass, Virginia, USA - Uddannelse
- private tutors
- Erhverv
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
poet - Relationer
- Cabell, James Branch (friend)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- William Dean Howells Medal (1940)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1932-45)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1938-45)
Ellen Glasgow House National Historical Landmark
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1932) - Kort biografi
- Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born into an old and respected Southern colonial family and spent her summers at their historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a setting she used in her writings. She published her first book, The Descendant, at age 22 in 1897. All her many subsequent novels were set in the South, where her reputation was quickly established. Recovery from a suicide attempt in 1918 was to prove the inspiration behind her story of the strong and independent Dorinda Oakley, the heroine of Barren Ground (1925), considered one of the most powerfully moving of Ellen Glasgow’s works. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for In This Our Life. Ellen Glasgow corresponded with many other literary figures such as Maxwell Perkins, and several collections of her letters have been published. Her autobiography The Woman Within (1954) was published posthumously.
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