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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Valley
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Valleys
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Green
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