Editor’s Note: Summer 2015 Issue
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Why should 21st-century readers bother with a big book about the residents of a small country town in 19th-century England? To Julie Pfeiffer, associate professor of English, Middlemarch, by George Eliot, “is a brilliant novel, one that still has a lot
“The Clinging Oak and the Sturdy Vine”
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Ruth Hale, a writer, feminist, and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table, received her early education at Hollins. She is one of three women about whom Susan Henry writes in Anonymous in their Own Names. Ruth Hale was