The Works of Ellen Glasgow Including: Barren Ground, The Miller of Old Church, Vein of Iron, The Sheltered Life, The Romantic Comedians, They Stooped to Folly, The Battle Ground, The Deliverance, Virginia.
Finely Bound Set of The Works of Ellen Glasgow; Signed By Her
The Works of Ellen Glasgow Including: Barren Ground, The Miller of Old Church, Vein of Iron, The Sheltered Life, The Romantic Comedians, They Stooped to Folly, The Battle Ground, The Deliverance, Virginia.
GLASGOW, Ellen.
Item Number: 3592
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
One of 810 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Ellen Glasgow. Three quarter blue morocco, raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels. Top edge gilt. marbled endpapers. Octavo, 12 volumes. The set includes: Barren Ground, Miller of Old Church, Vein of Iron, Sheltered Life, Romantic Comedians, They Stooped to Folly, Battle-Ground, Deliverance, Virginia, Voice of the People, Romance of a Plain Man, and Life and Gabriella. Each are in fine condition set their original slipcases. An exquisite set.
Born into an elite Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, the young Glasgow developed in a different way from that traditional to women of her class. Due to poor health, she was educated at home in Richmond. She read deeply in philosophy, social and political theory, and European and British literature.
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