It is the setting of a book in which the title character is sold to Reverend Eppes for homosexual pleasure; later he axe-murders (*) Margaret Whitehead and imagines being reunited with her in heaven.
This state is the setting of both Barren Ground and In This Our Life, two novels by native resident Ellen Glasgow. An author from here wrote about a pawnbroker whose irksome wife Dame Lisa is kidnapped by Koschei the Deathless in a book subtitled "A Comedy of Justice." A slave girl named Nancy who is severely mistreated by Sapphira Colbert was born and raised here in the final novel by Willa Cather. It is the setting of a book in which the title character is sold to Reverend Eppes for homosexual pleasure; later he axe-murders (*) Margaret Whitehead and imagines being reunited with her in heaven. That novel narrated by the lawyer Thomas Gray is set in this state and is William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. For 10 points, name this state whose main intellectual center is Richmond.
This state is the setting of both Barren Ground and In This Our Life, two novels by native resident Ellen Glasgow.
Virginia