Ellen Glasgow: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives (No. 3))

This book reprints contemporaneous reviews of Ellen Glasgow's books as they were published between 1897 and 1943. Book reviews, originally printed in newspapers and other periodicals in this country and in England, tell the story of Glasgow's critical reception during her long and productive career. Nineteen novels as well as a volume of poetry, one of her short stories, and one of criticism, were published during her lifetime. Her first book, published anonymously in 1897, elicited much attention when it was revealed that the author was a young Richmond woman. By the time of the 1943 publication of her volume of literary criticism, A Certain Measure, she was a much-respected and much-honored author, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and other awards. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Series Editor's Preface......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Introduction......Page 16 The Descendant (1897)......Page 40 Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898)......Page 54 The Voice of the People (1900)......Page 72 The Battle-Ground (1902)......Page 90 The Freeman and Other Poems (1902)......Page 108 The Deliverance (1904)......Page 116 The Wheel of Life (1906)......Page 136 The Ancient Law (1908)......Page 156 The Romance of a Plain Man (1909)......Page 170 The Miller of Old Church (1911)......Page 184 Virginia (1913)......Page 194 Life and Gabriella (1916)......Page 212 The Builders (1919)......Page 228 One Man in His Time (1922)......Page 246 The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923)......Page 264 Barren Ground (1925)......Page 276 The Romantic Comedians (1926)......Page 310 They Stooped to Folly (1929)......Page 332 The Sheltered Life (1932)......Page 360 The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow (1929-33)......Page 392 Vein of Iron (1935)......Page 406 The Virginia Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow (1938)......Page 438 In This Our Life (1941)......Page 450 A Certain Measure (1943)......Page 482 Index......Page 516 This book reprints contemporaneous reviews of Ellen Glasgow's books as they were published between 1897 and 1943. Book reviews, originally printed in newspapers and other periodicals in the USA and in England, tell the story of Glasgow's critical reception during her long and productive career. Nineteen novels as well as a volume of poetry, one of her short stories, and one of criticism, were published during her lifetime. Her first book, published anonymously in 1897, elicited much attention when it was revealed that the author was a young Richmond woman. By the time of the 1943 publication of her volume of literary criticism, A Certain Measure, she was a much-respected and much-honoured author, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and other awards. From [Harper & Brothers] comes The Descendant, an anonymous novel of the strenuous kind which exhibits untrained force. Edited By Dorothy M. Scura. Includes Index.