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Virginia-born novelist Ellen Glasgow played a leading role in helping Southern literature move away from the idealized, romantic portraits that were common in the nineteenth century, and toward a more gritty, realistic, nuanced view of the region.The Virginia of this book's title is a woman, Virginia Pendleton, who strives throughout her life to live up to the ideal of Southern femininity, but it's a guise that ultimately does her more harm than good.
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Table of contents
- VIRGINIA
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST - THE DREAM
- Chapter I - The System
- Chapter II - Her Inheritance
- Chapter III - First Love
- Chapter IV - The Treadwells
- Chapter V - Oliver, the Romantic
- Chapter VI - A Treadwell in Revolt
- Chapter VII - The Artist in Philistia
- Chapter VIII - White Magic
- Chapter IX - The Great Man Moves
- Chapter X - Oliver Surrenders
- BOOK SECOND - THE REALITY
- Chapter I - Virginia Prepares for the Future
- Chapter II - Virginia's Letters
- Chapter III - The Return
- Chapter IV - Her Children
- Chapter V - Failure
- Chapter VI - The Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Will to Live
- Chapter VIII - The Pang of Motherhood
- Chapter IX - The Problem of the South
- BOOK THIRD - THE ADJUSTMENT
- Chapter I - The Changing Order
- Chapter II - The Price of Comfort
- Chapter III - Middle-Age
- Chapter IV - Life's Cruelties
- Chapter V - Bitterness
- Chapter VI - The Future
