“A Woman of To-Morrow”

Abstract

Chapter 7 builds upon the activism of Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to critique their oftentimes conflicting views of race, class, and gender through their literature, nonfiction writing, and correspondences. This chapter reveals how Glasgow and Rawlings struggled to maintain traditional values and an attachment to an older, more naturalistic lifestyle while embracing the more modern views of social justice that such lifestyles often overlooked.