The Freeman & Other Poems: 'Then memory halts-it dares not enter there''

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia.

She published her first novel ‘The Descendant’ anonymously in 1897 at age 24.

As a ‘Southern’ writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many of them based on her own experiences and relationships. She wrote realistically of the changing contemporary South; very different from the then idealistic escapist fare after Reconstruction.

As the women's suffrage movement developed at the t...