Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south.
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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 (1873–1945)
“What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent....”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“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)