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Ellen Glasgow

writer, novelist, poet, essayist, suffragette

1873 – 1945

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.

All Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

— Ellen Glasgow

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

— Ellen Glasgow