As the light fell on her face Gerty Bridewell awoke stifled a yawn with her pillow and remembered that she had been very unhappy when she went to bed.

The Wheel of Life

Literature & Fiction

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

History & Criticism

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Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage

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"One of Miss Glasgow's great novels; it stands out as a fine and capable achievement. There is no doubt that with her fine historic sense, her faithful realism, her infectious humor, her gentle irony, she will rank as one of the first great American novelists." -New York Sun  "For it all goes back to that - to Gabriella herself, the finest, most lovable and thoroughly worthwhile heroine it has been our good fortune to meet in many a long day. A real flesh-and-blood woman, not perfect by any means, making mistakes, learning many an enforced lesson, but always normal, optimistic, true and dependable as steel. The book is exceedingly well written; it has humor and pathos, reality, an exceptional insight into character, and a brave and inspiring philosophy of life. It sets a very high standard for the novels of 1916; those that measure up to it will be notable ones indeed." -The New York Times  "A Southern girl breaks with her family traditions of genteel poverty and goes into business, but meets with suffering and disillusionment before she works out her salvation....It is a novel of manners and customs." -Publishers Weekly  "Sex is the triumphant note of 'Life and Gabriella.' Scarcely a moment in it fails to bring before the reader that overwhelmingly important theme....As a chronicle of a woman 'Life and Gabriella' is filled with reality. The obsession of sex is no stronger in its pages than we find it in the world outside of them, and we follow Gabriella's career with intense interest." -Boston Transcript  "Most admirable is the art with which Miss Glasgow catches the social atmosphere and puts it, living and colorful, into these pages. She has never done finer, truer work than these delicate, firm strokes with which she paints the life of Gabriella and her family and friends." -Bookman  "The central conception is unique, and it is one of great strength." -The New York Evening Post  "Although life deals severely with Gabriella, it never succeeds in making her a victim. This she refuses to be: 'You can't be a victim unless you give in,' says Gabriella, and because courage is her outstanding virtue, she does not give in. She is a southern girl, brought up in traditions of the old school. She marries, as all well-brought-up girls should, and her marriage, insecurely founded on sudden passion, comes to a sudden end. Left to her own resources, with two children dependent on her, Gabriella takes her life in her own hands and makes a success of it. At thirty-eight she is a successful New York business woman, self reliant and independent. Then comes her second love affair and in it her common sense wars with tradition, for the man she loves is not of the 'old school' type. But common sense, with love as its ally, wins, and we leave Gabriella with the feeling that life has done well by her after all." -Book Review Digest  "A good example of the careful, assured study of social life and character which marks this novelist's work." -The Times of London  "Life did its worst for Gabriella in the way of husband, family and environment, but Gabriella did her best so dauntlessly and with such resource that she forced circumstances into her favor. her unflinching bravery, her gallant buoyancy, are so emphatically her outstanding characteristics that they dwarf her other qualities almost into negation....'Life and Gabriella' is clever, finished, interesting. Ellen Glasgow tells the story in a quizzical, easy vein, frequently witty and always entertaining." -The Bellman

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The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

Classics

PRESENTS A SHAMELESS HEROINE After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour. On the window-sill, midway between the white curtains, a pot of blue hyacinths stood in a cracked china plate, and as the sunlight shone into the room, the scent of the blossoms floated to the corner where Gabriella was patiently pulling basting threads out of the hem of a skirt. For a minute her capable hands stopped at their work, and raising her smooth dark head she looked compassionately at her sister Jane, who was sitting, like a frozen image of martyrdom, in the middle of the long horsehair sofa. Three times within the last twelve months Jane had fled from her husband's roof to the protection of her widowed mother, a weak person of excellent ancestry, who could hardly have protected a sparrow had one taken refuge beneath her skirt. Twice before Mrs. Carr had wept over her daughter's woes and returned her, a sullen saint, to the arms of the discreetly repentant Charley; but to-day, while the four older children were bribed to good behaviour with bread and damson preserves in the pantry, and the baby was contentedly playing with his rubber ring in his mother's arms, Gabriella had passionately declared that "Jane must never, never go back!" Nothing so dreadful as this had ever happened before, for the repentant Charley had been discovered making love to his wife's dressmaker, a pretty French girl whom Jane had engaged for her spring sewing because she had more "style" than had fallen to the austerely virtuous lot of the Carr's regular seamstress, Miss Folly Hatch. "I might have known she was too pretty to be good," moaned Jane, while Mrs. Carr, in her willow rocking-chair by the window, wiped her reddened eyelids on the strip of cambric ruffling she was hemming.

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The Wheel of Life

Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage

Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage

The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

Life And Gabriella: The Story Of A Woman's Courage