Virginia

""Virginia"" is a novel written by Ellen Glasgow and published in 1913. The story is set in Virginia during the post-Civil War era and follows the life of a young woman named Virginia who struggles to find her place in society. Virginia is born into a wealthy family but is not content with the traditional role of a woman in her social class. She desires independence and freedom from the constraints of her family and society. Through her journey, Virginia experiences love, loss, and betrayal while navigating her way through the complexities of her family's history and the changing world around her. Glasgow's writing explores themes of gender roles, class, and the impact of the Civil War on Southern society. Overall, ""Virginia"" is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that delves into the complexities of identity and the struggle for individuality in a society that values tradition and conformity.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.