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...When I consider her as a person," wrote Novelist James Branch Cabell of his friend, Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters elected Novelist Glasgow to membership. But the Pulitzer Prize committee still has not recognized her existence. She had the misfortune to publish Barren Ground the same year that Sinclair Lewis published Arrowsmith which won the prize. In the next nine years the Pulitzer committee passed over three of her best books in favor of Bromfield's Early Autumn, La Farge's Laughing Boy, Stribling's The Store. Novelist Glasgow went right on writing, revising, perfecting the series of novels which she had projected at the beginning of the Century - "a social...
This week Ellen Glasgow, now 66, added In This Our Life to this impressive series. Not her greatest book, it is an interesting detail in the mural of her life work. She had been working on this detail since 1935, had revised it at least three times. It is not unusual for Novelist Glasgow to rewrite a single chapter 15 times...
Like most Glasgow novels, this one is laid in Queenborough, the imaginary Virginia town which she had made as much her literary province as Hardy made Wessex or Trollope Barsetshire. It is the story of the ineffectualness of a Southern aristocrat, Asa Timberlake, who has lost his money but not his manners. The Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed...
Nearly all the characters in the book are defeated. The weak ones are crushed. But Asa's defeat is a victory, for it implies that under his apparent ineffectualness there is something stronger than his daughter's brittle bravery. Like the Greek dramatists, Novelist Glasgow believes that men's characters are men's fate, and that tragedy is never in defeat but in surrender. "An honorable end," she is fond of saying, "is the one thing that cannot be taken from...