The Sheltered Life - Softcover

Ellen Glasgow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809001381 ISBN 13: 9780809001385

Publisher: Hill & Wang of Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1979

Synopsis

During the years before World War I, two families of Queensborough, Virginia--the Archbalds and the Birdsongs--watch their once gracious way of life fall before the advance of industry and new values

About this title

About the Author

Ellen Glasgow was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1873. She received the Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1940, the Southern Authors Prize and the Saturday Review of Literature award for Distinguished Service to American Literature in 1941, and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1942. Her other books include Viginia, Barren Ground, Vein of Iron, They Stooped to Folly, In This Our Life, and an autobiography, The Woman Within. Carol S. Manning is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill & Wang of Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809001381
• ISBN 13: 9780809001385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292