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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

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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
Primaries
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Ground
Influence
Woman
Crawl
Long
Indirect
Serpent
Continues

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