Virginia

""Virginia"" is a novel by American author Ellen Glasgow, first published in 1913. The story is set in the post-Civil War era and follows the life of Virginia, a young woman from a wealthy family in the American South. Virginia is intelligent and independent, but she struggles to find her place in a society that values tradition and conformity. She is torn between her desire for personal fulfillment and her duty to her family and community. Along the way, Virginia faces challenges and heartbreaks, but she ultimately learns to embrace her own identity and follow her own path. The novel explores themes of gender roles, social class, and the changing values of American society in the early 20th century. ""Virginia"" is considered a classic of American literature and is praised for its vivid portrayal of Southern culture and its complex, nuanced characters.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.