"The Miller of Old Church", by Ellen Glasgow, published by Doubleday & Page, 1911, First Edition.

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Beginning in 1897, she wrote 20 novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Most of her novels have Southern settings, reflecting her awareness of the enormous social and economic changes occurring in the South both in the decades before her birth and throughout her own life.
Glasgow's realistic fiction novels often showed the female characters as stronger than the male characters. It was this new type of Southern fiction that made Ellen Glasgow one of the major writers of her time. The vantage point from which most of her nineteen novels were written was her native home of Richmond, Virginia. Glasgow won the Pulitzer prize for fiction later in 1942 and was extremely popular in the early part of the 20th century.
,br> With "The Miller of Old Church" (1911) Glasgow concentrating on gender traditions; she contrasted the conventions of the Southern woman with the feminist viewpoint, a direction which she continued in "Virginia" (1913).

"It was past four o'clock on a sunny October day, when a stranger, who had ridden over the corduroy road between Applegate and Old Church, dismounted near the crossroads before the small public house known to its frequenters as Bottom's Ordinary. Standing where the three roads meet at the old turnpike gate of the county, the square brick building, which had declined through several generations from a chapel into a tavern, had grown at last to resemble the smeared face of a clown under a steeple hat which was worn slightly awry." [excerpt, Ch.1, "The Miller of Old Church"].

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Hard boards, original publisher's green cloth, gold lettering on spine and front board [a little shelf wear]; 5" x 7.1/2"; inscription signed "Fred Miller" on the back of the front endpaper; 432 pages printed on high quality laid paper, a few page-corner folds, very good condition.