Ellen Glasgow papers
Content Description
This collection contains letters including a handwritten receipt, a note, and a postcard from the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The postcard is a Richmond S.P.C.A. report that documents the progress made in 1942, outlining the success of fieldwork and administrative efforts. The letters are sent to Marguerite Ravenscroft and are written by Ellen Glasgow, serving as President, and Mrs. Randolph Maynard, the Secretary, discussing the organization's functions and thanking Ravenscroft's contributions to purchasing a lethal chamber.
Dates
- Creation: 1943
Creator
- Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945 (Person)
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Biographical Note
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873–1945) was an American novelist whose work focused on social, economic, and cultural change in Virginia. She was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Virginia, into a family with established local social standing. She lived in Virginia in her family home her entire life. Glasgow’s first novel, The Descendant, was published anonymously in 1897, followed by Phases of an Inferior Planet in 1898. In 1900 she published The Voice of the People, beginning a series of novels addressing the social and political history of Virginia beginning in the mid‑19th century. In 1925 Glasgow published Barren Ground, followed by works such as Vein of Iron (1935) and three comedies of manners: The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), and The Sheltered Life (1932). Her final novel, In This Our Life (1941), received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. After her death in Richmond in 1945, her memoir The Woman Within was published in 1954. Glasgow died on November 21, 1945, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
Full Extent
0.03 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia makes its bibliographic records and the metadata contained therein available for public use under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Designation.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift from Bernard Unti to the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia on May 1, 2023.
Condition Description
Good
Subject
Topical
- Title
- Ellen Glasgow papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Rose Oliveira-Abbey
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States