Barren Ground

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Barren Ground can also refer to a place on the Island of Saint Helena.

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

The heroine, Dorinda Oakley, leaves her family for a young doctor only to find that he is forced into marriage with the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Dorinda, now pregnant flees to New York where she loses the baby in an accident.

She returns to the family home and creates a prosperous dairy farm.