Preface

Summary

This volume reprints reviews of Ellen Glasgow's books as those reviews were published during her lifetime. Reviews not printed in full or in part are listed at the end of each section. If printed reviews have excisions, the missing parts are indicated by ellipses, in the case of a brief deletion, or by […], in the case of a lengthier deletion. If a review covers more than one book, the part of the review that focuses on Ellen Glasgow's work is reprinted with no indication of deletion.

In general, the reviews have been reprinted as they appeared originally. Typographical errors have been silently corrected; book titles and characters' names are consistently spelled correctly; book titles are consistently italicized.

Every effort has been made to be as comprehensive as possible in collecting reviews. Although the reviews reprinted include ones from newspapers and journals in the United States and in Great Britain, not all of the contemporaneous reviews of Glasgow's work are reprinted or listed in this volume. Many that do appear here come from major newspapers and journals, and it is hoped that they provide a representative sampling of the variety of critical responses printed in Glasgow's lifetime.