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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

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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
Faces
Rising
Hope
Healing
Also
Hearts
Inextinguishable
Earth
Moved
Mounts
Women
Spring
Sap
Heart
Looked
Restlessness
Strange
Weeks
Week
Passed

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