Everyone,

You are invited to a free lecture at the Library of Virginia, tomorrow,
Friday, 7 September 2001, at noon in the first floor conference rooms.

Tricia Pearsall will present an illustrated talk on "Ellen Glasgow's
Richmond," based on her essay of the same title in the Library of Virginia's
new book, Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers.

For more information about the book, go to
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/sb/pubs/glasgow.htm

Tricia Pearsall and husband own and reside at One West Main Street, where
Ellen Glasgow lived throughout her career as one of America's greatest
novelists of the twentieth century. Glasgow conceived of the body of her
work as constituting a social history of Virginia from 1860 to 1940, and
many of the scenes in her novels were set in Richmond and in the
neighborhood where she lived. That neighborhood changed dramatically during
her lifetime, and the tension between the old and the new is a theme found
in her novels.

The book's editors, Welford Dunaway Taylor and George C. Longest, will join
Tricia Pearsall for a book signing session after the talk.

As a special treat, Tom Camden, the director of special collections at the
Library of Virginia, will announce the Library's recent acquisition of a
select group of books from Ellen Glasgow's personal library. Because Ellen
Glasgow had little formal education and largely educated herself through
reading, her books, especially those with her own markings and marginal
notes, offer important evidence of how she was able, in her personal life as
well as in her art, to resist the strictures of parochialism and conformity.


A selection of books from Ellen Glasgow's library will be on display, as
well.

There is free underground parking at the Library of Virginia in Historic
Downtown Richmond.

For more information, please call (804) 692-3592.

See you there,

John

John T. Kneebone [log in to unmask]
Director, Publications and Educational Services
Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us

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