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Ellen Glasgow

Born

in Richmond, Virginia, The United States

April 22, 1873

Died

November 21, 1945

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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American writer Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow won a Pulitzer Prize for In This Our Life (1941), her realistic historical novel of Virginia.

Born into an upper-class Virginian family, Glasgow at an early age rebelled against traditional expectations of women and authored 20 bestselling novels. Southern settings of the majority of her novels reflect her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes, occurring in the South in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life.

Beginning in 1897, she wrote her novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.
Glasgow read widely to compensate for her own rudimentary education. She maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable wri ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 4,345 ratings · 588 reviews · 170 distinct works • Similar authors

	In This Our Life 3.56 avg rating — 1,063 ratings — published 1941 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barren Ground 3.74 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1925 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadowy Third 3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1916 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow, Anne Firor Scott (Afterword) 3.86 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1935 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow, Carol S. Manning (Afterword) 3.51 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1932 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virginia by Ellen Glasgow, Linda Wagner-Martin (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1916 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deliverance 3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1904 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romantic Comedians 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1926 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle-Ground 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1902 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1916 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

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“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
― Ellen Glasgow

tags: humor, life, stress

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“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
― Ellen Glasgow

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What shall we read in September, 2022? Books published in or before 1990.

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

22 votes 33.3%

Giant, by Edna Ferber

16 votes 24.2%

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South, by Anne Moody

9 votes 13.6%

A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons

8 votes 12.1%

In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow

6 votes 9.1%

The Chaneysville Incident, by David Bradley

5 votes 7.6%

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