Writing the Margins: Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow and the Literary Tradition of the Ruined Woman

In the first section of this essay, the author will examine the other author's technique of using marginal characters to draw the boundaries and illuminate the undercurrents of the societies influenced the ways in which they chose to use writing as a tool for criticizing those societies. In the last section, he will examine how echoes illustrate the differing ways they approached the literary tradition.Saunders, Catherine E. is the author of 'Writing the Margins: Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow and the Literary Tradition of the Ruined Woman' with ISBN 9780674962354 and ISBN 0674962354.