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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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