Ellen Glasgow

The Contemporary Reviews

Dorothy M. Scura

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1992
• ISBN:
  9780511877421
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor's Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Descendant (1897)
• Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898)
• The Voice of the People (1900)
• The Battle-Ground (1902)
• The Freeman and Other Poems (1902)
• The Deliverance (1904)
• The Wheel of Life (1906)
• The Ancient Law (1908)
• The Romance of a Plain Man (1909)
• The Miller of Old Church (1911)
• Virginia (1913)
• Life and Gabriella (1916)
• The Builders (1919)
• One Man in His Time (1922)
• The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923)
• Barren Ground (1925)
• The Romantic Comedians (1926)
• They Stooped to Folly (1929)
• The Sheltered Life (1932)
• The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow (1929-33)
• Vein of Iron (1935)
• The Virginia Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow (1938)
• In This Our Life (1941)
• A Certain Measure (1943)
• Index