Ellen Glasgow: A Biography

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

Ellen Glasgow: A Biography. By SUSAN GOODMAN. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xii, 308 pp. $34.95.

SUSAN GOODMAN, professor of English literature at the University of Delaware, has produced a decent if not completely satisfying biography of the notable twentiethcentury Virginia novelist Ellen Glasgow.

Glasgow was born in 1873 to wealth and power. Although her mother's people were poor FFVs, her father built a fortune associated with Richmond's great Tredegar Iron Works. She published her first novel, The Descendant, in her early twenties, and in the nearly ...

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