Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) "was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south." (Wikipedia, 2011/10/11).

• She had a long-term romantic relationship with fantasy writer James Branch Cabell.

• "As the United States women's suffrage movement was developing in the early 1900s, Glasgow marched in the English suffrage parades in the spring 1909. Later she spoke at the first suffrage meeting in Virginia. Glasgow felt that the movement came "at the wrong moment" for her, and her participation and interest waned. 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 her stories. Her later works, however, have heroines who display many of the attributes of women involved in the political movement." (Wikipedia, 2011/10/11)

Works

Novels

• The Descendant (1897; first published anonymously) - "features an emancipated heroine who seeks passion rather than marriage" (Wikipedia, 2011/10/11)
• 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)
• One Man In His Time (novel) (1922)
• 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) (filmed 1942 as In This Our Life)

Collections

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

Autobiography / memoir

• The Woman Within (published posthumously in 1954)

Further reading

• Wikipedia
• Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within (1954 autobiography)