Status Updates From The Wheel of Life

Glasgow’s only novel set outside Virginia, in NYC. People might think “Edith Wharton”, but in fact Wharton was writing her first full-length New York novel, The House of Mirth, simultaneously with Glasgow’s work on this one. The House of Mirth was published in mid-October 1905, The Wheel of Life in early January 1906.

Although this is Glasgow’s only novel set outside Virginia, already in the opening chapters there is a Virginia connection. The introduction of the key characters in these chapters is very well-done.