Barren Ground is a 1925 novel by Ellen Glasgow giving an account of 30 years in the life of a woman in rural Virginia. (from wikipedia.org)

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873 - 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942.

Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction. (from wikipedia.org)