Ellen Glasgow House

Ellen Glasgow House, also known as Branch-Glascow House, was a home of writer Ellen Glasgow.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

Famous quotes containing the words ellen glasgow, ellen, glasgow and/or house:

    No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
    Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

    I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.
    Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)

    The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in contemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization ...
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    Turn back. Turn, young lady dear
    A murderer’s house you enter here
    I was wooed and won little bird
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)