No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquatedto seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward....
The works of American novelist Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) constitute a social history in fiction of Virginia from the Civil War to World War II. Her novels are distinguished in style and conception. Ellen Glasgow was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond,...
Ellen Glasgow is a transitional figure in Southern American literature. Having rebelled against inhibiting traditions in her society, she was also impelled to rebel against the literature which expresses the values of that society: the romantically...
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow wrote nineteen novels, many of which were best-sellers. She was known as one of the first realists in American letters, and as an important ironist. Like Willa Cather, Glasgow was one of the most widely read of America's...
Ellen Glasgow New Perspectives Edited by Dorothy M. Scura Tennessee Studies in Literature, Vol. 36, University of Tennessee Press, 1995 251 pp. Cloth, $35.00 Ellen Glasgow has long been famous for attacking the South's "evasive idealism" and calling for "blood and irony" in...
Ellen Glasgow: A Biography. By Susan Goodman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 312 pp. $34.95. Reading in tandem the recent biographies of Ellen Glasgow and Julia Peterkin reinforces our understanding of the strong ties of the southern home; in the case of...
In the following essay, which is the earliest substantial consideration of Glasgow's short fiction, Meeker argues that the stories mark an important transition in Glasgow's development as a writer.
In the first sustained piece of criticism on Glasgow's short stories since Richard K. Meeker's 1963 essay, Raper argues that Glasgow's stories were written during a time of aesthetic and emotional crisis and reflect her search for a new language to express the workings of the deepest reaches of human consciousness.
