""The Sheltered Life,"" writes Carol S. Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is ""a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance."" It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtaken by the new age of industrialization.
Ellen Glasgow's career-long attempt to expose the cruelty of the ""cult of beauty worship"" and the ""philosophy of evasive idealism"" that she saw as prevalent in the South's conversations, manners, customs, and literature reaches its zenith in The Sheltered Life.
- ISBN10 0860681912
- ISBN13 9780860681915
- Publish Date 14 September 1981 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 322
- Language English