The Voice of the People (1900)

Summary

E.A.U.V., “Miss Glasgow's New Novel,” Baltimore News, 13 April 1900, p. 6

… The novel has some striking and dramatic qualities, and holds the attention by the intensity of its spirit in spite of a great deal of detail—detail, however, which in great part rounds out the work as a picture of modern Southern life. The Voice of the People is marked with true distinction and that feeling for the pains and perplexities of life, which are so much the inspiration of the modern novelist. Miss Glasgow has evidently outlived the morbidity and theatric ideas that showed themselves in Phases of an Inferior Planet and, though in a lesser degree, in The Descendant, and with the present strong and not unwholesome romance to her account, there is every reason to believe that her pen may be depended on for work which will be an important contribution to our latter-day American fiction.

“Miss Ellen Glasgow's New Book Entitled The Voice of the People,” Richmond Times, 15 April 1900, p. 8

To Virginians the book will prove of special interest on account of its local color. No one who has ever visited Williamsburg will fail to recognize it under the name of Kingsborough with its colleges, William and Mary, and its insane asylum. Well described, too, are the old overgrown church yard and the wide, dusty “Duke of Gloucester” Street. Most happy is the author's characterization of it as a village that “dozed through the present to dream of the past and found the future a nightmare.”