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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

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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Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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