Susan Keating Glaspell, Norma Ashe

Martha Carpentier (Seton Hall University)

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 1942

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Norma Ashe

is Susan Glaspell’s eighth and penultimate novel. It was published in 1942 by Lippincott, which at that time also donated the metal plates of Glaspell’s earlier novels to the war effort, with the result that they could not be reprinted, virtually guaranteeing the demise of Glaspell’s reputation as a novelist (Ozieblo 269). While she hoped the success of her new novel would avert this fate, it did not do well. Critical reaction was divided. According to Linda Ben-Zvi, the “

New Yorker

dismissed it as a Christian Science tract” (380); however, Rose Feld’s review in the

New York Times

gave it unqualified praise: “The story of Norma Ashe is . . . a deeply probing tale told with the simplicity and emotional restraint of a fine artist.” It is not surprising that in the…

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Citation: Carpentier, Martha. "Norma Ashe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 October 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16012, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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