(Ebook) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow ISBN 9781447410010, 1447410017

(Ebook) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow ISBN 9781447410010, 1447410017

This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake family, decayed aristocrats living in a southern city. The story of how two marriages are wrecked and a great wrong done to an innocent Negro boy is told largely as it is viewed by Asa Timberlake, sixty years of age, husband of a hypochondriac wife, father of two daughters, one utterly selfish and feminine, the other courageous and gallant but confused and unhappy.  This is a fascinating work and it eventually became a Hollywood movie starring Bette Davies. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Beginning in 1897, she wrote 20 novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia.  The majority of her novels have Southern settings, reflecting her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes occurring in the South both in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life.