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Article: From Jordan's end to Frenchman's bend: Ellen Glasgow's short stories.(Special Issue: Ellen Glasgow)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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One of the best things to happen to Ellen Glasgow was Henry Anderson. In her earlier fiction she had juxtaposed the virile self-made man and the effete aristocrat, her heroines usually giving their hearts to the former but marrying the latter. Now here under her minute scrutiny was an exemplar of both fictional males, a well-born man who had not gone to seed but had risen from the ashes of Reconstruction and like a good Virginian had reverted to being an "Englishman," very much as her brother Arthur Glasgow had done. She had fixed her romantic imagination on other males earlier, notably on her brother-in-law, the idealistic Walter McCormack, and on a married man, "Gerald B." ...
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Article: Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives.
The Mississippi Quarterly;
March 22, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... 1995. xvii, 251 pp. $35.00. Ellen Glasgow. New Perspectives, Edited by Dorothy ... complexity--the richness--of Ellen Glasgow's art. Mainly feminist in its approach ... Susan Goodman in "Composed Selves: Ellen Glasgow's The Woman Within and Edith Wharton ...
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