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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhere ... and you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth. - Ellen Glasgow Attribution: Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), U.S. novelist. The Woman Within, ch. 10 (1954). Written in 1944. Glasgow said that she gained this insight from reading the great Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).

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Ellen Glasgow

Titles by Ellen Glasgow:

• The Difference

eNotes:

• From Jordan’s End to Frenchman’s Bend: Ellen Glasgow’s Short Stories (The Difference)
• Ellen Glasgow (The Difference)

Encyclopedia:

• Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Glasgow, Ellen [Anderson Gholson] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ellen Glasgow (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Ellen Glasgow (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Ellen Glasgow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ellen Glasgow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Glasgow, Ellen (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ellen Glasgow dies
• Ellen Glasgow receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for In This Our Life
• Ellen Glasgow publishes In This Our Life
• Ellen Glasgow publishes Vein of Iron
• Ellen Glasgow publishes Barren Ground
• Ellen Glasgow publishes The Battle-Ground
• Ellen Glasgow is born