American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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Page 184
... mother dead , visits her " aunt , " actually her mother , now a drug addict . But at least one feels in the pulse of the novel that Ellen Glasgow was emerging from the second period of despondency in which she had been so long engulfed ...
... mother dead , visits her " aunt , " actually her mother , now a drug addict . But at least one feels in the pulse of the novel that Ellen Glasgow was emerging from the second period of despondency in which she had been so long engulfed ...
Page 448
... Mother Hera , Mother Frigga , Mother Ishtar , Mother Isis , dread Mother Astarte of the weaving arms , it is thy priestess , it is she who after the blind centuries and the groping years shall make it known to the world that ye are one ...
... Mother Hera , Mother Frigga , Mother Ishtar , Mother Isis , dread Mother Astarte of the weaving arms , it is thy priestess , it is she who after the blind centuries and the groping years shall make it known to the world that ye are one ...
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... mother , " and he also loved Na- ture , which meant then the New England countryside and above all its wild birds . Of his mother we see chiefly what she can share with Peter - her delight in the pleasures and cus- toms of her childhood ...
... mother , " and he also loved Na- ture , which meant then the New England countryside and above all its wild birds . Of his mother we see chiefly what she can share with Peter - her delight in the pleasures and cus- toms of her childhood ...
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