American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1134 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ellen Glasgow and the Southern Realists
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The idea
The witness pairs Ellen Glasgow with Willa Cather as regional novelists who explored women's lives in vividly evoked settings, noting that neither set out to write about women and that both turned to it as their confidence grew. Glasgow's subject is Virginia and the myths it told about itself.
In practice
Virginia, described without its own myth.
Where people slip
The witness resists calling them women writers.
Your place on the trail
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