Susan Keating Glaspell, Ambrose Holt and Family

Cheryl Black (University of Missouri)

Ed. by Noelia Hernando-Real, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1931

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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In April 1931, just a month before receiving the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for

Alison’s House

, Susan Glaspell completed her sixth novel,

Ambrose Holt and Family

, published in the U.S. by Frederick A. Stokes Co. and the U.K. by Victor Gollancz Ltd. The novel is a re-working of Glaspell’s play

Chains of Dew

, written in 1920 and produced by the Provincetown Players in 1922. Inviting comparison to Ibsen’s Nora,

Chains of Dew’s

Diantha (Dotty) Standish is a doll-wife, living in domestic comfort provided by her (presumably) self-sacrificing poet husband Seymore, who claims that he lives a bourgeois Midwest existence as a bank director for the sake of his wife, mother, and children. When Seymore’s Greenwich Village comrades (including a New Woman crusader for birth control with whom…

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Citation: Black, Cheryl. "Ambrose Holt and Family". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 September 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16009, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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