The Woman Within (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Glasgow
- First Published: 1954
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Death or dying, Cruelty, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
The Work
Ellen Glasgow, a Southern woman who set her best novels in the Virginia she knew, deliberately rejected labels of regional or Southern or woman writer and sought for universal appeal and reputation. The Woman Within is the autobiography of herself as writer. The book begins with her earliest memories—sensations that anticipate her antipathy to inflicted pain and sensitivity to beauty. These memories include having a terrifying vision of a “malevolent” face without a body, wistfully watching sturdier children at play in the street, recognizing beauty and...
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