Ellen Glasgow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Ellen Glasgow was born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 22, 1873, to Anne Jane Glasgow and Francis Thomas Glasgow, manager of Tredegar Iron Works. Ellen was the eighth of ten children. During her childhood, she was particularly sensitive to the nervousness and depression from which her gentle, aristocratic mother suffered, undoubtedly the result of Anne Glasgow's almost incessant childbearing. This experience was to motivate Ellen's later work for women's rights and was clearly reflected in her fiction.
Ironically, in temperament, Glasgow was more like her...
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