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Ellen Glasgow


Born
in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
April 22, 1873

Died
November 21, 1945

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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: 3.72 · 4,275 ratings · 573 reviews · 118 distinct works â€� Similar authors
In This Our Life
3.56 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 1941 — 43 editions
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Barren Ground
3.74 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1925 — 71 editions
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The Shadowy Third
3.86 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1916 — 3 editions
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Vein of Iron
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3.87 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1935 — 14 editions
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The Sheltered Life
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Virginia
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3.44 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1916 — 93 editions
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The Deliverance
3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1904 — 106 editions
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The Romantic Comedians
3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1926 — 20 editions
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The Battle-Ground
3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1902 — 58 editions
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Life and Gabriella: The Sto...
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1916 — 99 editions
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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
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“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
― Ellen Glasgow
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