Mission
The Ellen Glasgow Society, founded in 1974, holds affiliations with the Modern Language Association, the American Literature Association, and the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Dedicated to the promotion and preservation of southern studies, especially to the texts and contexts of southern women writers, the society sponsors The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers, formerly The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter.
Over the past 33 years, the Ellen Glasgow Society and its newsletter have kept the works of Glasgow in print and has endeavored to preserve the literary associations of One West Main (Glasgow’s home in Richmond, Virginia).
Today, under the expanding vision of a new editor, Gwendolyn Jones of Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, and with the help of new editorial and advisory boards, the newsletter has evolved into a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to the promotion and preservation of all southern writers and to the rediscovery of neglected southern writers.