"The Battle Ground" by Ellen Glasgow, published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1902. First Edition, First Printing with '1902' on the title page, "Published March 1902" without any other printings on the copyright page; illustrated.

The Battle Ground, Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel, was her first bestseller. It conspicuously departs from the tradition of Southern romances popularized by Thomas Nelson Page, and contemporary reviewers praised the book for its historical accuracy. Glasgow bragged that military officers in Great Britain studied its descriptions of battle. With her, realism had not only crossed the Atlantic, it had "crossed the Potomac." Glasgow never sensationalizes the Civil War, her vision of the war centers less on its corruption or barbarity than on its occasions for small decencies and their power of humanization. Glasgow cannot separate the war from its greater social implications--it is a place, as her title suggests, that tests the soul of a nation as well as individual men and women. The importance of The Battle-Ground in Southern literary history cannot be overemphasized, for Glasgow's reimagining of the Civil War had a profound impact on the next generation of Southern writers, including Allen Tate, Stark Young, and Margaret Mitchell. [from a review]

"My grandmother introduced me to Ellen Glasgow's books one long lazy summer in 1973. The Battle Ground was the first of Glasgow's book that I read- from that moment on I was hooked. I then read all of her books that I could put my hands on. Glasgow is sadly a writer that you don't hear much about now- but her books are so well written and so evocative - and they take the reader into the characters lives in a very believable way." [from a private review]

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Hard boards, original publisher’s maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board [some soiling and wear]; 5” x 8”; 512 pages on laid paper + frontispiece and three other monochrome plates on glossy paper, some soiling and wear, very good condition.