Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes

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Giving up her home had been a much greater wrench than she had expected.... She had a curious sense of her own roots twined around the house, as she had once seen a tree's roots around an old shrine. In time the roots had grown into every crevice until shrine and tree were one indestructible entity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Born: January 28, 1882

Died: March 14, 1967 (aged 85)

Bio: Alice Tisdale Hobart born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist.

Known for:

Oil for the Lamps of China
The serpent-wreathed staff (1951)
By the City of the long sand (1926)
Gusty's child (1959)
Pioneering where the world is old (1917)

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