Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873-November 21, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.

1 Life and career
2 Select bibliography
3 Footnotes
4 External links

Life and career

Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensated for by reading widely. Today, her novels are regarded as more than just depictions of life in the Southern United States.

The 1906 publication of Ellen Glasgow's novel The Wheel of Life drew critical acclaim and comparison with Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, published in 1905.

Ellen maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell [1], another notable Richmond writer. She spent many summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a venue that reappears in her writings.

On her passing in 1945, Ellen Glasgow was interred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Select bibliography

Novels

The Descendant (1897)
Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898)
The Voice of the People (1900)
The Battle-Ground (1902)
The Deliverance (1904)
The Wheel of Life (1906)
The Romance of a Plain Man (1909)
Virginia (1913)
The Builders (1919)
The Past (novel) (1920)
Barren Ground (1925)
The Romantic Comedians (1926)
They Stooped to Folly (1929)
The Sheltered Life (1932)
Vein of Iron (1935)
In This Our Life (1941) (Pulitzer Prize for the Novel 1942)

Collections

The Shadowy Third, and Other Stories (1923)[1]
The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow (12 stories (pp. 24-253), with an introduction by the editor (pp. 3-23))[2]

Autobiography

The Woman Within (published posthumously in 1954)

Footnotes

^ Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 127.
^ Meeker, Richard (1963). The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.