Novelette Free online fiction. 'If you need solid, convincing spooky tales, Southern writers are often a good bet. Noted writer Ellen Glasgow grew up in the south and went on to be the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1941 for the novel In This Our Life. Please enjoy this wonderful Glasgow story originally published in Scribner's Magazine in 1916, which is now found in The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler, out last month from Random House/Vintage.'
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aka Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow American writer Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow won a Pulitzer Prize for In This Our Life (1941), her realistic historical novel of Virginia. Born into an upper-class Virginian family, Glasgow at an early age rebelled against traditional expectations of women and authored 20 bestselling novels. Southern settings of the majority of her novels reflect her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes, occurring in the South in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life. Beginning in 1897, she wrote her novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Glasgow read widely to compensate for her own rudimentary education. She maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable writer of Richmond. She spent many summers at the historic Jerdone Castle plantation estate of her family in Bumpass, Virginia; this venue reappears in her writings. Her works include: The Descendant (1897), Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898), The Voice of the People (1900), The Battle- Ground (1902), The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields (1904), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), Virginia (1913), The Builders (1919), The Past (1920), Barren Ground (1925), The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929), The Sheltered Life (1932), Vein of Iron (1935), In This Our Life (1941).
