Virginia

Virginia is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow which was first published in 1913. The book tells the story of Virginia a young woman from a wealthy family in the American South. Virginia is beautiful intelligent and highly educated but she struggles to find her place in a society that values traditional gender roles and social status.As the novel progresses Virginia becomes increasingly disillusioned with the expectations placed upon her as a woman and she begins to question the values and beliefs of her family and the society around her. She falls in love with a man who is beneath her social status and she must navigate the complex social and cultural norms of the time to pursue her own desires.Throughout the book Glasgow explores themes of gender class and identity as well as the tensions between tradition and modernity in the early 20th century American South. The novel is widely regarded as a landmark work of American literature and it remains a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of the human experience.1913. Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond Virginia. She received the Pulitzer prize in 1942 for In This Our Life. Virginia her eleventh novel marks a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work in that it attacked in a subtle yet unmistakable way the very layer of society that constituted her readership through the story about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting preserving and promoting the world's literature in affordable high quality modern editions that are true to their original work.