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Ellen Glasgow set out to write an ironic novel about Southern ladies; in the end, however, sympathy for her character Virginia took over, turning "a comedy of manners into a tragedy of human fate." The resulting novel follows Virginia through her early life as the daughter of a pastor and his submissive wife, into Virginia's romantic marriage to a handsome, dynamic man, and on to her increasingly difficult life as a wife-with-children. In contrast to Virginia is her friend Susan, caught in expectations of filial duty, who tries to find another way to live. The situations and decisions here are never easy. Is passionate love preferable to life with a steady, less exciting man? Who comes first - husband, children, or self? Is submission a necessary aspect of life as wife and mother? This novel provides no simple answers. Through the lives of Virginia and Susan, Ellen Glasgow considers and attacks the traditions and expectations of turn-of-the-century Southern society, the Church, and the feminists of her day. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1913. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942 for In This Our Life. Virginia, her eleventh novel marks a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work in that it attacked, in a subtle yet unmistakable way, the very layer of society that constituted her readership through the story about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Ellen Glasgow set out to write an ironic novel about Southern ladies; in the end, however, sympathy for her character Virginia took over, turning "a comedy of manners into a tragedy of human fate." The resulting novel follows Virginia through her early life as the daughter of a pastor and his submissive wife, into Virginia's romantic marriage to a handsome, dynamic man, and on to her increasingly difficult life as a wife-with-children. In contrast to Virginia is her friend Susan, caught in expectations of filial duty, who tries to find another way to live. The situations and decisions here are never easy. Is passionate love preferable to life with a steady, less exciting man? Who comes first - husband, children, or self? Is submission a necessary aspect of life as wife and mother? This novel provides no simple answers. Through the lives of Virginia and Susan, Ellen Glasgow considers and attacks the traditions and expectations of turn-of-the-century Southern society, the Church, and the feminists of her day. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1913. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942 for In This Our Life. Virginia, her eleventh novel marks a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work in that it attacked, in a subtle yet unmistakable way, the very layer of society that constituted her readership through the story about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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TOWARD the close of a May afternoon in the year 1884, Miss Priscilla Batte, having learned by heart the lesson in physical geography she would teach her senior class on the morrow, stood feeding her canary on the little square porch of the Dinwiddie Academy far Young Ladies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Priscilla, John Henry, Miss Willy, New York, High Street, Cyrus Treadwell, Fifth Avenue, Uncle Cyrus, Abby Goode, Doctor Fraser, Aunt Belinda, Bolingbroke Street, Margaret Oldcastle, Old Street, Jinny Pendleton, Atlantic City, Aunt Ailsey, Aunt Docia, Cross's Corner, Gabriel Pendleton, General Goode, Sycamore Street, Tom Peachey, Virginia Pendleton, Aunt Lucy New!
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TOWARD the close of a May afternoon in the year 1884, Miss Priscilla Batte, having learned by heart the lesson in physical geography she would teach her senior class on the morrow, stood feeding her canary on the little square porch of the Dinwiddie Academy far Young Ladies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Priscilla, John Henry, Miss Willy, New York, High Street, Cyrus Treadwell, Fifth Avenue, Uncle Cyrus, Abby Goode, Doctor Fraser, Aunt Belinda, Bolingbroke Street, Margaret Oldcastle, Old Street, Jinny Pendleton, Atlantic City, Aunt Ailsey, Aunt Docia, Cross's Corner, Gabriel Pendleton, General Goode, Sycamore Street, Tom Peachey, Virginia Pendleton, Aunt Lucy New!
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- The Heir of Redclyffe (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte M. Yonge on page 53
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