In the Virginia town of Dinwiddie in 1884, Virginia Pendleton, the rector’s lovely daughter, is finishing an education designed to produce a self-sacrificing Southern wife and nothing more. She marries Oliver Treadwell, a young man in revolt against his manufacturing family who dreams of becoming a playwright, and Glasgow traces the long years in which devotion, motherhood and her husband’s ambitions test everything she was taught to believe.
One of Glasgow’s finest novels and a searching portrait of the Southern feminine ideal, published in 1913. Download the free EPUB.