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3) Vein of iron
12) The deliverance
13) The builders
In The Builders, novelist Ellen Glasgow considers the tumultuous changes ushered in by World War I through the lens of the shifting political landscape in her home state of Virginia. Business tycoon David Blackburn is the emblem for these changes, exemplifying the rising upper class of new money and the shifting roles of men and their relationships with women.
The turn of the twentieth century marked a period of tumultuous change in the U.S. South. Long oppressed by a socioeconomic caste system, rural Southerners began to make political plays that afforded them greater power and influence. In her gripping novel The Voice of the People, Virginia-born writer Ellen Glasgow documents this transition in realistic detail.
15) Virginia
Virginia-born novelist Ellen Glasgow played a leading role in helping Southern literature move away from the idealized, romantic portraits that were common in the nineteenth century, and toward a more gritty, realistic, nuanced view of the region.The Virginia of this book's title is a woman, Virginia Pendleton, who strives throughout her life to live up to the ideal of Southern femininity, but it's a guise that ultimately does her more harm than
...Born, raised and educated in Richmond, Virginia, novelist Ellen Glasgow began to receive literary acclaim for her realistic portraits of life in the region. However, with the novel The Wheel of Life, Glasgow shifts the scene to bustling New York City, where poet Laura Wilde attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of romance.
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