A Certain Measure of Achievement

“A Certain Measure of Achievement” looks at the many book reviews and clippings on Ellen Glasgow’s major works collected by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings when working on her biography and compares them with similar reviews of Rawlings’s major works. This chapter considers the ways in which their responses to one another’s literature helped to further Rawlings and Glasgow’s friendship, while underscoring their shared literary values. Glasgow and Rawlings clearly saw pieces of their own experiences and worldviews in their respective works. This chapter also establishes, through criticism, the literary identities of both authors.