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In "Ellen Glasgow: a biography", Susan Goodman vividly brings the famously secretive writer to life, penetrating the myths, half-truths, and lies that have swirled around Glasgow since the publication of her first novel, "The descendent", in 1896. Drawing on previously unpublished papers and personal interviews, Goodman uncovers the engrossing details of Glasgow's family history, social milieu, personal tragedies, and literary career. Glasgow emerges from these pages as a woman of great courage, self discipline, and indomitable will who survived a sickly childhood, the premature deaths of her mother, Anne, and favourite sister, Cary , and the suicides of her brother Frank and brother-in-law George Walter McCormack, as well as the deafness which afflicted her from her early twenties. Throughout her life, literature remained her driving passion, Goodman explores the genesis of each novel, detailing Glasgow's process of writing and offering incisive critical appraisals. In the novels which were her life's work, Glasgow sought a commitment to truth beyond human weakness,to what she ca

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Ellen Glasgow

For many years Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow has been regarded as a classic American regional novelist. But Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work.

A Virginia lady, Glasgow began to write at a time when the highest praise for a literary woman was to be mistaken for a male writer. In her early fiction, published at the turn of the century, all attention is focused on male protagonists; the strong female characters who do appear early in these novels gradually fade into the background.

But Ellen Glasgow grew to become a woman who, born to be protected from the very life she wanted to chronicle, moved “beyond convention” to live her life on her own terms. And as her own self-image changed, the perspective of her novels became more feminine, the female characters moved to center stage, and their philosophies became central to her themes. Glasgow’s best novels, then—Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, and the romantic trilogy that includes The Sheltered Life—came late in her life, when s

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Ellen Glasgow: A Biography

August 13, 2016

Just finished rereading this biography of Glasgow by Susan Goodman. I suppose all biographers have to pick and choose what they focus on in their work, but I did feel that some sections missed the spirit of what Glasgow was experiencing, given what I've read of her letters and interviews with family/friends. Parts, like the conclusion, spoke strongly to me, but other sections, like the beginning of her relationship with Henry Anderson, seemed antiseptic in their presentation. I love Goodman's description of Glasgow as having a "masculine mind" and "feminine facade."

"Cary died on August 19, 1911. Glasgow selected a verse for her gravestone from the Bhagavad-Gita, a book they had studied together: 'The unreal has no being,' it reads. 'The real never ceases to be.'"

"'The relations of woman to man,' one of Glasgow's characters [from Miller of Old Church] observes, 'was dwarfed suddenly by an understanding of the relation of woman to woman. Deeper than the dependence of sex, simpler, more natural, closer to the earth, as though it still