Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
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Page 109
... Ellen Glasgow , who was born in Richmond , Virginia , in 1874 and died in that city in 1945 , the descendant on her mother's side of a Southern aristocratic family that had settled in the Tidewater in the early sixteen - hundreds and ...
... Ellen Glasgow , who was born in Richmond , Virginia , in 1874 and died in that city in 1945 , the descendant on her mother's side of a Southern aristocratic family that had settled in the Tidewater in the early sixteen - hundreds and ...
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... Ellen Glasgow most effectively criticizes the consequences of the code . She does so not only through her portrait ... Ellen Glasgow's major achievement and her most sustained criticism of the South lie in the ' Novels of the Country ...
... Ellen Glasgow most effectively criticizes the consequences of the code . She does so not only through her portrait ... Ellen Glasgow's major achievement and her most sustained criticism of the South lie in the ' Novels of the Country ...
Page 112
... Ellen Glasgow makes again and again — what she considers the engrained Southern habit of ' slighting ' work . Dorinda , the daughter of a poverty - stricken farming family whose only assets are a dumb patience and the capacity to endure ...
... Ellen Glasgow makes again and again — what she considers the engrained Southern habit of ' slighting ' work . Dorinda , the daughter of a poverty - stricken farming family whose only assets are a dumb patience and the capacity to endure ...
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The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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