In the canon
Virginia
Ellen Glasgow
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1913
- Pages
- Pages 450
At Miss Priscilla Batte's academy in Dinwiddie, the curriculum has one purpose, which is to keep a girl from learning anything that might unfit her for sacrifice. Virginia Pendleton comes out of it lovely, dutiful and armoured in ignorance, and she pours herself so entirely into her husband and her children that by forty there is nothing left of her that anyone thought to want.
the quality which knit her soul to the enduring soul of her race, had enabled her to find happiness in the simple act of renouncement.
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