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  Ellen Glasgow Criticism
Glasgow's renown is primarily as a novelist, but her twelve short stories also reveal her acuity as an observer of manners who masterfully represents the complexities of the human struggle through her female characters.
Glasgow's autobiography suggests that she faced many of the same dilemmas as those of her fictional female characters: whether or not to marry, whether or not to abandon a career for marriage, whether or not to maintain independence.
Glasgow's first published work was a short story written when she was twenty-two years old, "A Woman of Tomorrow." The theme of a woman's conflict between marriage and a career was to figure prominently in all her fiction.
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 Ellen Glasgow - Cambridge University Press
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 the USA and in England, tell the story of Glasgow’s critical reception during her long and productive career.
By the time of the 1943 publication of her volume of literary criticism, A Certain Measure, she was a much-respected and much-honoured author, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and other awards.
www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521390400   (184 words)

  
  Ellen Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Glasgow was born in Virginia in 1873 or 1874, the eighth child of Francis Glasgow, manager of the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, and Anne Gholson, who was of one of the oldest and most elite families of Tidewater Virginia.
Glasgow's works were often best-sellers, and she traveled widely and maintained close friendships with many writers and critics.
Ellen Glasgow died in her sleep of a heart attack in 1945.
www.virginia.edu /~history/courses/courses.old/hius323/glasgow.html   (334 words)

  
 Ellen Glasgow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.
Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote 20 novels, mainly about life in Virginia.
On her passing in 1945, Ellen Glasgow was interred in the Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ellen_Glasgow   (109 words)

  
 Glasgow, Ellen --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ellen Glasgow, miniature by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society.
Glasgow, the daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family with Old Virginia roots on her mother's side, was educated mainly at home because of her delicate health.
Glasgow was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Va. She published her first novel, ‘The Descendant', in 1897.
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 The Mississippi Quarterly: Ellen Glasgow's disability.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Glasgow's self-pity and depression can only be fully understood in the light of her acquired hearing loss and her time's social opinion of disabled women.
Glasgow became angry and refused to concede that her impairment made heterosexual romance impossible.
Glasgow's work 'The Sheltered life' has a visual perspective necessitated by her hearing loss.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18595323&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (179 words)

  
 Ellen Glasgow Biography / Biography of Ellen Glasgow Biography Biography
Ellen Glasgow was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Va. Her father was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian who "never committed a pleasure." His wife was a woman of "laughing spirit" whom he neither understood nor appreciated.
Ellen's childhood was marred by her parents' misalliance (a subject her fiction frequently reflected), but her youth was secure and privileged, and she acquired a good education under private tutors.
Glasgow's next books may reflect that loss, but by 1909, when The Romance of a Plain Man appeared, she was clearly in control of her art.
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 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 1873-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born in Richmond, Va., on 22 April 1873, published her first novel, The Descendant, in 1897, when she was 24 years old.
Glasgow's strong intellect led her to a conscious channeling of her creative energies toward the making of a substantial body of fiction.
The framework of these works was to be, as she stated in 1898, at age 25, "a series of sketches dealing with life in Virginia." As she matured artistically, this early half-formed intention realized it self in a series of novels that constitutes a social history of her native Virginia.
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 Ellen Glasgow the Person   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Glasgow certainly wasn't like the average women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Glasgow felt alienated from a society that stressed social graces and momentary pleasures instead of the durable pleasures of the spirit and intellect that she regarded highly.
Glasgow's trouble with men continued when she fell in love with a married man in the early 1900's.
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 Ellen glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Glasgow was born in Richmond, VA on April 22, 1873 and was a novelist whose career expanded over 40 years.
Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel The Battle-ground was her first best-seller and presented a...
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) was an American author known for her novels about the...
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 Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born in Virginia in 1873.
Glasgow published her first novel, The Descendant, at the age of 24.
Glasgow died in her sleep at home in Richmond Virginia on November 21, 1945, and is sleeping at Hollywood Cemetery.
richmondthenandnow.com /Glasgow.html   (556 words)

  
 Friends and Rivals: James Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow (shown here at about age 9) lived most of her life at One West Main Street.
Glasgow remembered Cabell "in boyhood, he appeared shy, reserved, over-sensitive, with a face of tempered melancholy, and with the manners of the Victorian age." She wrote:
Glasgow gave considerable thanks to Cabell in her autobiography for his help in the editing of the book.
www.library.vcu.edu /jbc/speccoll/exhibit/friends1.html   (1403 words)

  
 Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
His is the "Professional Instinct," hers the "instinct to yield." A too-obvious irony is the timing of the traffic accident that gives Estbridge the opportunity to betray Judith (or the author the opportunity to rescue her).
Ellen Glasgow decided not to publish the short story and seems not to have finished revising.
Mary Hunter Austin and Willa Cather, like Glasgow, were long considered regional writers, though not all their work is set in the desert Southwest or Nebraska, as not all Glasgow's is set in Virginia.
college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/glasgow.html   (686 words)

  
 PAL: Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
Goodman, Susan."Competing Visions of Freud in the Memoirs of Ellen Glasgow and Edith Wharton." Colby Library Quarterly 25.4 (Dec 1989): 218-26.
Heald, William F. "Ellen Glasgow and the Grotesque." Mississippi Quarterly 18 (1965): 7-11.
"Ellen Glasgow, the Nashville Agrarians, and the Glasgow Allen Tate Correspondence." Mississippi Quarterly 44.1 (Wint 190-91): 35-47.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/glasgow.html   (501 words)

  
 Ellen Glasgow Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A nationally recognized landscape painter, Glasgow is owner and director of the Capital Gallery of Contemporary Art, Frankfort, KY. Throughout her artistic career, she has traveled extensively across the country, developing a sensitivity for the nation's coastlines, rivers, marshes, fields, ridges and mountains, all familiar subjects in her paintings.
Glasgow has been represented in numerous one-person and group exhibitions in the Midwest and along the East Coast.
Born in Tennessee, Glasgow grew up in Western Kentucky and attended Murray State University, KY. Additional training in the visual arts was received at College of Albermarle, Elizabeth City, NC; Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI; Art League School, Alexandria, VA and in workshops in Italy and Greece.
www.ellenglasgowart.com /about_artist.html   (214 words)

  
 Vein of Iron (Ellen Glasgow)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) was a successful writer during her lifetime, but, alas, her work is too little known today.
Glasgow lived most of her life in Richmond, Virginia, and was critically praised as an early naturalist writer.
Glasgow writes knowingly both of the loss of faith in traditional Western religions and also of the need for the spiritual values of wisdom, self-understanding, and compassion.
johnkeyes.com /a/0813916364-vein-of-iron.html   (1777 words)

  
 Virginia (novel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Virginia (1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family.
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 turn of the last century, be it capitalism, religion or racism.
www.ukpedia.com /v/virginia-novel-.html   (880 words)

  
 Southern Author Ellen Glasgow profiled in Southern Literary Review
Ellen Glasgow was born to a prominent Old Virginian family, in 1873.
Glasgow anonymously published her first novel, The Descendant when she was 24.
In the late twenties and early thirties Glasgow observed the decline of Southern aristocracy and the advancement of modern industrial civilization in three critically praised comedies.
www.southernlitreview.com /authors/ellen_glasgow.htm   (301 words)

  
 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureEllen Glasgow - Author Page
As a young woman Ellen Glasgow refused to attend church with her father, an act of intellectual rebellion.
Yet 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 the stories.
Virginia Pendleton, based on Glasgow’s mother, is an old-fashioned southern lady raised on “the simple theory that the less a girl knew about life, the better prepared she would be to contend with it.” The author was capable of irony about such figures, sustained by illusion, at times controlling through weakness.
college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/glasgow_el.html   (756 words)

  
 Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
Born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 22, 1873, Ellen Glasgow, daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family with Old Virginia roots on her mother's side, was educated mainly at home because of her delicate health.
With a brilliant and increasingly ironic treatment, Glasgow examined the decay of Southern aristocracy and the trauma of the encroachment of modern industrial civilization in three comedies of manners--The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), and The Sheltered Life (1932).
J.R. Raper, Without Shelter: The Early Career of Ellen Glasgow (1971, reprinted 1982), and From the Sunken Garden (1980), on her later works; and Marcelle Thiebaux, Ellen Glasgow (1982), cover her life and work.
search.eb.com /women/articles/Glasgow_Ellen_Anderson_Gholson.html   (375 words)

  
 Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women
Glasgow’s originality of mind and abiding fascination with her native South are in abundant display in this new selection of her correspondence with women.
The letters are set in their proper context by a wealth of useful features, including a substantial introduction, a complete chronology of Glasgow’s life, a comprehensive calendar listing all of her known correspondence with women, and a biographical register identifying all correspondents and persons mentioned in the letters.
The result is a collection valuable not only to Glasgow scholars but also to any reader drawn to the South and the great contribution made by women to its literature and culture.
www.upress.virginia.edu /books/matthews.html   (195 words)

  
 Glasgow on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Glasgow gears up to claim a larger share of Scottish tourism.
Glasgow to host first curated and commissioning Festival of Contemporary Visual Art; Francis McKee appointed as curator.
Arta, a Glasgow, Scotland club, is located in a historic warehouse.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/glasgowu1s1.asp   (621 words)

  
 Ellen Glasgow House, City of Richmond
Author of many novels featuring Southern settings, Ellen Glasgow counted this Main Street abode as her home from 1887 until she died in 1945.
Glasgow's many novels depicted life in the South with a realism devoid of the nostalgic sentimentality that characterized much southern writing of the period.
Glasgow's “square gray house” was purchased by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1947.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA04/kane/thesis/eghouse.htm   (234 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ellen Glasgow (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ellen Glasgow[glas´gO] Pronunciation Key, 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).
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 Glasgow, Ellen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Southworth: true womanhood and the intertext of Ellen Glasgow's Virginia.
Ellen Glasgow, Henry Anderson, and 'The Romantic Comedians.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
Dipolarity and narration in Glasgow's 'The Descendant.'(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
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 Representative American Story Tellers: Ellen Glasgow.
Miss Glasgow is one of the small number of American novelists who have chosen to take a higher and finer attitude toward their work.
Throughout all of her books, one notices a theme to which Miss Glasgow reverts again and again, with never-flagging interest, and that is the theme of unequal marriages.
It is a peculiarly American novel, since it symbolises with a subtlety that is essentially feminine and a force that is almost virile the practical limitations of the doctrine that all men are born free and equal.
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