The romantic comedians / by Ellen Glasgow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945, author.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Library of Theodore Dreiser (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Fiction.

Marriage.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Widowers--Fiction.

Widowers.

May-December romances--Fiction.

May-December romances.

Sex--Fiction.

Sex.

Control (Psychology)--Fiction.

Control (Psychology).

Social norms--Fiction.

Social norms.

Richmond (Va.)--Fiction.

Richmond (Va.).

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Virginia--Richmond.

Genre:

Fiction

Fiction.

Fiction -- English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sperr, Portia Hamilton (donor) (Libra Rare copy)

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945 (autograph) (Libra Rare copy)

Wellford, Roberta, 1873-1956 (inscription) (Libra Rare copy)

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926.

Summary:

Playing on ideas about gender and power through sexual alignments, the novel offers rare feminist insight into relations between the sexes in southern society during the twenties. Ellen Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new level. Her sixty-five-year-old male protagonist, the recently widowed Judge Gamaliel Honeywell, falls in love with and marries an impulsive twenty-three-year-old woman, emblem of the 1920s.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy PS3513.L34 R65 1926 was presented to the Penn Libraries by Portia Hamilton Sperr in 2015. Has inscription: "For Roberta Wellford, with the love of many year4s, Ellen Glasgow."

OCLC:

24158859