Ellen Glasgow - the old alone have finality. What is true of the yo

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

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Glasgow, Ellen. The Sheltered Life. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932, p. 191.

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About the Author

Ellen Glasgow

Born: April 22, 1873
Died: November 21, 1945
Nationality: American
Profession: Novelist

Biography

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including seven novels which sold well (five reaching best-seller lists) as well as gained critical acclaim, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.

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