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Ellen Glasgow Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Apr 22, 1873
  • Died: Nov 21, 1945

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south.

Born into an elite Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, the young Glasgow developed in a different way from that traditional to women of her class. Due to poor health, she was educated at home in Richmond. She read deeply in philosophy, social and political theory, and European and British literature. She spent her summers at her family's Bumpass, Virginia estate, the historic Jerdone Castle plantation, a setting that she used in her writings. Her father, Francis Thomas Glasgow, was the son of Arthur Glasgow and Catherine Anderson. He was raised in Rockbridge County, Virginia and graduated from Washington and Lee College in 1847.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. women

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. birthday

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. change

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? experience