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Evelyn Scott

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Born January 17, 1893
Died August 3, 1963 (70 years old)
Clarksville, United States
Also known as: Elsie Dunn, Elsie Metcalfe
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Evelyn Scott was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion." - Wikipedia

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Eva Gay

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This is a novel of Americans born in the nineties, and the First World War has served as the background of their lives. A story of idealism, the book deals fictionally with Scott's real life relationship with Owen Merton. It also deals, for the time period, somewhat candidly with sexual matters.

Migrations

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From 1850 to the eve of the Civil War, characters attempt to resolve identities, search for salvation, and tried unsuccessfully to escape their imperfect condition by migration.