English

Ella

A first novel as mature as this is evidence enough of a writer born to charm a large and devoted audience. A sensitive woman reading it cannot escape the feeling that her own youth has been described, though in lights and colors she herself could not have thought possible. The dewy freshness of childhood, the seriousness of young girlhood, the native sympathy of womankind are not mere sentimentalities here. They are abiding realities finely felt and expressed with delicate strength. Miss Thomas was born and grew up on Long Island. She studied at Vassar and later taught at Wellesley. Her summers are now spent in Rhode Island and her winters teaching in New Jersey. This is her first published book.

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