The Sheltered Life (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1906-1914
- Setting: Richmond, Virginia
- Principal Characters: General David Archbald, Jenny Blair Archbald, Aunt Etta, Aunt Isabella, Eva Howard Birdsong, George Birdsong
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Virginia, Family or family life, Class conflict, Teenagers, South or Southerners, Marriage, 1910’s, Adultery, Sick persons, Hospitals
- Locales: Richmond, VA
The Story:
“I’m alive, alive, alive, and I’m Jenny Blair Archbald,” exclaimed the precocious nine-year-old Jenny, on having thrown aside as tedious Louisa Alcott’s Little Women (1868-1869). Jenny lived with three somewhat downtrodden females—her widowed mother and two aunts—in the household of her grandfather, General David Archbald. An aged, highly civilized man, the general sought to maintain his aristocratic family amid declining fortunes in a once elegant but rapidly failing Queenborough neighborhood. Jenny, like her mother, grandfather, and aunts, was...
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