The Romantic Comedians

Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1926.

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Hardcover. First edition, trade issue. Spine tanned, and an owner's name neatly erased on the half-title, thus very good in a very good dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends. Inscribed by the author as "the one I like best after Barren Ground." An attractive copy of the first novel in the author's *Queensborough Trilogy*, novels of manners modeled on her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Considered by some as her best work, she also won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for *In This Our Life*. The trade issue is scarce signed.

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Item #284344 The Romantic Comedians. Ellen GLASGOW.

Ellen Glasgow
birth name: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
born: 4/22/1873
died: 11/21/1945
nationality: USA

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Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose realistic depiction of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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Ellen Glasgow enjoyed popularity through the 1920s and then like others of that generation, including her Richmond neighbor and close friend James Branch Cabell, fell out of favor. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel In This Our Life (1941), published late in her life was something of a valedictory award for good behavior. It is not stunningly uncommon, but is difficult in fine condition - the gold on the jacket rubs easily. There has been some interest in Glasgow, as both a woman writer, and a Southern writer, and one would do well to keep an eye out for her pre-1920 books in jacket, as well as her collection of ghost stories, The Shadowy Third and Other Stories (1923). Her popularity reached its apex in the 1920s, and the novels of that period, with printings that were commensurate with that popularity, can usually be found for modest sums.more