Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Evelyn Scott (American Novelist)

Evelyn Scott (1893–1963,) born Elsie Dunn, pseudonym Ernest Souza, was an American novelist, playwright, and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s.

Her first husband was the writer Frederick Creighton Wellman (pseudonym: Cyril Kay-Scott.) She had an affair with the British painter Owen Merton (father of the American Trappist monk Thomas Merton) and later married the English writer John Metcalfe.

Scott wrote the novels Eva Gay (1933,) Bread and a Sword (1937,) The Shadow of the Hawk (1941,) The Wave (1929,) The Narrow House (1921,) and The Golden Door (1925.) Her collections of poems are Precipitations (1920) and The Winter Alone (1930.) Her memoirs are Escapade (1923) and Background in Tennessee (1937.)

The University of Tennessee’s Dorothy M. Scura edited Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist (2001.)

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A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
Evelyn Scott
Topics: Commitment, Belief, Dedication

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