Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873-November 21, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Life and career
Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state 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 Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive
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. James Branch Cabell ( April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American Author of Fantasy fiction and Belles She spent many summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a venue that reappears in her writings. Bumpass is an unincorporated community in Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Jerdone Castle is a Plantation located in Bumpass Virginia dating from 1742
On her passing in 1945, Ellen Glasgow was interred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. This article is about the cemetery in Richmond Virginia for the cemetery in Hollywood California see Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of 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. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story The year 1897 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books The Voice of the People is an anthology of folk songs sung by Traditional singers of England Scotland Wales and Ireland The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1902 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1904 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books The year 1909 in literature involved some significant new books Virginia ( 1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks Happiness by serving her family The year 1913 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1919 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1920 in literature involved some significant events and new books Barren Ground can also refer to a place on the Island of Saint Helena. The year 1925 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1926 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1929 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1932 in literature involved some significant events and new books The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books In This Our Life is a 1941 novel by Ellen Glasgow. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was a prize awarded between 1918 and 1947 Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books 24-253), with an introduction by the editor (pp. 3-23))[2]
Autobiography
- The Woman Within (published posthumously in 1954)
Footnotes
- ^ Bleiler, Everett (1948). An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books Everett Franklin Bleiler (born 1920 is an editor and bibliographer of Science fiction and Fantasy. The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 127.
- ^ Meeker, Richard (1963). The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
External links
- Works by Ellen Glasgow at Project Gutenberg
- Ellen Glasgow Society
- Photos of the first edition of In This Our Life
- Friends and Rivals: James Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow, Online exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University
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