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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Perversity
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Enjoy
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Death
Nature

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