In his introduction to The Collected Stories of Ellen Glasgow, Meeker offers possible influences on Glasgow's story writing, including the progression of Glasgow’s failed relationship with Henry Anderson, influences of Darwinism, Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative style, and representations of new emerging psychological knowledge as an historical theme.[7]
Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar include Glasgow's stories in their sociohistorical examination of ghost stories written by American women writers, Haunting the House of Fiction: Female Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women.
