glasgow provided the setting for many of his novels, including the most widely read, "antimacassar city", "the philistines" and "the puritans", begun in 1940 and which were later published as "wax fruit: the story of the moorhouse family" in 1947, it eventually sold one million copies. these were two sequels, "aunt bel" (1949) and "the hayburn family" (1952).