Ellen Glasgow - American Writers 33
Ellen Glasgow - American Writers 33: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
Copyright Date: 1964
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 48
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Ellen Glasgow - American Writers 33
Book Description:

Ellen Glasgow. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was established in 1959. By providing readable critical introductions to American Writers, the pamphlets were designed to meet the needs and tastes of mature students and readers of imaginative literature throughout the world.

eISBN: 978-0-8166-5166-5
Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. 1-4)
  2. Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Glasgow (pp. 5-46)

    Ellen Glasgow’s parents combined the qualities that gave to both antebellum and reconstructed Virginia its stubborn romanticism and its peculiar strength. Her father, of Valley stock, was an ironworks executive and a Scotch Presbyterian in every nerve and sinew; he gave his children all the things they needed but love, and in eighty-six years never “committed a pleasure.” The best his daughter could say of him was that he had not hurt anyone for the mere satisfaction of hurting. Her mother, on the other hand, descended from Randolphs and Yateses, was a flower of the old Tidewater, who, smiling in...

  3. Selected Bibliography
    Selected Bibliography (pp. 47-48)
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