Introduction Lear, Ashley Andrews
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
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This introduction describes the start of the correspondence and friendship between two remarkable women writers, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, as well as some of the historical context ...and the importance and influence of their preserved letters. While these women were very different-- Glasgow was a former Southern debutante and Rawlings was a raucous pioneer of the Florida scrub-- they felt for one another a remarkable kinship. While theirs was not the only relationship of its kind, it was one of the great literary friendships of the South, and should be studied for the impact that such friendships may have on the lives and experiences of women writers.
Introduction ASHLEY ANDREWS LEAR
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
Book Chapter
From the comfort of her study at One West Main in Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Glasgow composed the first of many letters regarding the up-and-coming author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The year was 1933. ...The letter, which does not mince words, explained how Glasgow found herself struggling to assist her friend Irita Van Doren, editor of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, with a list of great forthcoming works in American literature. Lumping South Moon Under together with Bromfield’s The Farm and Carroll’s As the Earth Turns, Glasgow lamented that she had already passed the stage of writing about peasants and
The NFIX gene encodes a DNA-binding protein belonging to the nuclear factor one (NFI) family of transcription factors. Pathogenic variants of NFIX are associated with two autosomal dominant Mendelian ...disorders, Malan syndrome (MIM 614753) and Marshall-Smith syndrome (MIM 602535), which are clinically distinct due to different disease-causing mechanisms. NFIX variants associated with Malan syndrome are missense variants mostly located in exon 2 encoding the N-terminal DNA binding and dimerization domain or are protein-truncating variants that trigger nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) resulting in NFIX haploinsufficiency. NFIX variants associated with Marshall-Smith syndrome are protein-truncating and are clustered between exons 6 and 10, including a recurrent Alu-mediated deletion of exons 6 and 7, which can escape NMD. The more severe phenotype of Marshall-Smith syndrome is likely due to a dominant-negative effect of these protein-truncating variants that escape NMD. Here, we report a child with clinical features of Malan syndrome who has a de novo NFIX intragenic duplication. Using genome sequencing, exon-level microarray analysis, and RNA sequencing, we show that this duplication encompasses exons 6 and 7 and leads to NFIX haploinsufficiency. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Malan Syndrome caused by an intragenic NFIX duplication.
This study uses feminist narrative theory to argue how Ellen Glasgow alters her formal approach to constructing narratives, in order to account for the unique experiences and performances of her ...female characters. By analyzing Glasgow's shifting focal points in Barren Ground, The Sheltered Life , and Vein of Iron, the various performances of the characters in certain subscribed gender roles may be observed, along with the awareness by those characters, particularly the women characters, of their performances in the text to achieve certain goals. Comparing Glasgow's own narrative forms to those of her contemporaries that she appears to copy reveals a stark contrast in terms of narrative crisis and resolution that allows for her women characters to break the cyclical defeatism of women in novels from her period through reconstituting the desires that they seek in the narrative and altering their performances in the text to achieve new ends. This study uses the theoretical models of feminist narrative theory to show how structure and form are manipulated by Ellen Glasgow to create strong female protagonists who exemplify the post-structural concept of the feminine "other," theorized by Cixous and Irigaray, and who learn to perform their gender according to their social situations as they work toward fulfilling the desires set forth in the plot.
In Search of Truth, Not Sensation ASHLEY ANDREWS LEAR
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
Book Chapter
As marjorie kinnan rawlings collected materials toward her biography of Ellen Glasgow, she highlighted critics’ misreading of Glasgow and the many ways in which she was being overlooked, especially ...toward the end of her life, in spite of such a prolific and well-respected literary career. Recall the letter to Norman Berg referenced earlier in which Rawlings conveyed with some measure of indignation her Aunt Wilmer’s negative response to her decision to write a biography of Ellen Glasgow, “some obscure person,” rather than simply resting and having a good time (Bigelow and Monti 390). Ellen Glasgow, who broke into the literary
The Sheltered Life ASHLEY ANDREWS LEAR
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
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When marjorie kinnan rawlings committed to her biography of Ellen Glasgow, one area of Glasgow’s life, in particular, fascinated her more than any other, and led to a series of interviews with and ...private commentaries on Glasgow: her love life. Superficially, Glasgow epitomized the stereotype of a spinster. Echoing the title and theme of her 1932 novel, Ellen Glasgow lived The Sheltered Life, too frail to attend school, coming of age before women were permitted at the University of Virginia, and with a hearing impairment that meant she required relatives or close friends to accompany her when she traveled. Glasgow
Blood of My Blood ASHLEY ANDREWS LEAR
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
Book Chapter
The image of Rawlings taking Glasgow’s hand in hers after leading her in from the cold in her dream served as a foreground for the Glasgow she would come to understand even better as she spent time ...with Glasgow’s closest friends and family members to learn more about Glasgow after her death. Rawlings’s early glimpse into what was later published as Glasgow’s autobiography, The Woman Within, revealed to Rawlings a baby being carried about on a pillow and a child with nervous headaches that kept her from attending Miss Lizzie Munford’s school. Richmond had a different sort of elite from
A Woman of To-Morrow ASHLEY ANDREWS LEAR
The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow,
06/2018
Book Chapter
In her first published work of fiction, Ellen Glasgow, aged twenty-two, imagined the life of Patricia Yorke, the first woman to be considered for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme ...Court. The story, “A Woman of To-Morrow” (1895), exemplified the conflict experienced by so many ambitious women who find that their rise to success will require sacrifices greater than those of their male counterparts. Written well before the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, this story sees such changes as inevitable, and grieves for those women who would sacrifice parts of themselves to ensure that those
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