Beautifully written, as one expects of Ellen Glasgow, though the story does suffer from repetition. It's as if the author is so intent upon making a point, she thinks she must make it more than once. The main character, who dominates the novel first to last, is Virginia Pendleton. We meet her as a y

Didn't bother finishing it.
It had some nice descriptive passages, but was overall boring and racist; sure Glasgow was a product of her time, but awful anyway.

Glasgow and her gal pal Mary Johnston published novels in 1913 which bear their protagonist's names: Virginia and Hagar. Where Johnston often overlooks the psychology shaping her character's choices, Glasgow delves deeply into the motivations of the women surrounding her protagonista. Can't wait to

Virginia is raised to believe that women are wives and mothers, but shouldn't be clever or intelligent or intellectual. She never realizes that this might not be true, even when her life falls essentially into ruins. Written by a woman whom I think of as an American post-Civil War Bronte or Austen,

The copy I read had been remaindered to a second hand store, perhaps reflecting the depressing albeit it accurate portraysl of women's position in society.