A review by caitmarie24
Vein of Iron. Afterword by Anne Firor Scott by Ellen Glasgow

5.0

This book is lovely. I picked it for my 2015 Reading Challenge for the "book you chose for the cover" entry. And I did. It's a small, squarish book, with a cover from the 1960s re-issue. Just green and gold. It was written in 1935, though, and I loved reading about Ada Fincastle McBride and the "vein of iron" that runs through the women in her family as they deal with the Civil War, and then the Great War and the Great Depression. Her family never has much but they make do with what they can and they find happiness in just being together. It's quite rebellious a story, though, with several plot threads that buck the traditions of that age. Well worth reading.