Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson 1873-1945

Vein of iron by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
22 editions published between 1935 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 2,351 libraries worldwide
Ellen Glasgow considered Vein of Iron, published in 1935, to be her best work. "No novel has ever meant quite so much to me," she wrote a friend. The critics agreed; the book was favorably reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review and outsold all but one other work of fiction in the year of its publication. Opening in the years just before the First World War and laid in the Valley of Virginia, the book traces the experience of a family with four generations of strong women. Faced with a crisis when the bread-winner, a philosopher-minister, is defrocked for his unorthodox views, the women provide the "vein of iron" which carries the family through removal to Richmond (Queensboro in the book), through war and depression until the final return to the mountains.

Barren ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
58 editions published between 1925 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 2,021 libraries worldwide
Dorinda attempts to gain self-esteem by living an independent and joyless life, managing a Virginia homestead.

The sheltered life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
28 editions published between 1923 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,518 libraries worldwide
"The Sheltered Life," writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is "a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance." It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtaken by the new age of industrialization.

The woman within by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
23 editions published between 1944 and 1994 in English and held by 1,505 libraries worldwide
Long out of print and now brought back with a substantial and provocative feminist introduction, The Woman Within is a haunting and carefully crafted revelation of a major novelist's inner life. Placed in the context of current discussions of women's autobiography, the Ellen Glasgow who worked on The Woman Within from around 1934 until her death in 1945 speaks strongly - and surprisingly sympathetically - to readers today.

In this our life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
27 editions published between 1941 and 2006 in English and held by 1,493 libraries worldwide
A father gives the best years of his life in the service of others.

The battle-ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
45 editions published between 1902 and 2010 in English and held by 1,402 libraries worldwide
The state of Virginia before secession and during the Civil War.

The romantic comedians by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
20 editions published between 1926 and 1995 in English and Swedish and held by 1,237 libraries worldwide

A certain measure; an interpretation of prose fiction by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
8 editions published between 1938 and 1969 in English and held by 1,156 libraries worldwide

They stooped to folly. A comedy of morals by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
12 editions published between 1929 and 1986 in English and held by 1,106 libraries worldwide

Collected stories by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow( Book )
4 editions published between 1963 and 1970 in English and Spanish and held by 1,063 libraries worldwide