Vein of Iron (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Virginia, Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Calvinism, Appalachia, Dolls or dollhouses
- Locales: Ironside, VA, Queensborough, VA
Vein of Iron stresses one of Glasgow's dominant themes: that only the strong can make it through the hardships of life. As in many other Glasgow novels, including Barren Ground, the most obvious of these hardships is the lack of money. Ada Fincastle, the protagonist of Vein of Iron, has been aware of her family's precarious financial situation from her earliest years.
Her father, however, unlike Dorinda's father, is an educated man; indeed, his intellectual gifts have been his downfall. A Presbyterian minister, he had published a brilliant but unconventional...
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