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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

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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
Golden
Five
Suddenly
Rain
Parlour
Fronts
Victorian
Sun
Gloom
Front
Threw
Bars
Deep
Clock
Came

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