Reblogged from Pen in Her Hand:
In her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty describes her childhood forays to the local library. The stern librarian, Mrs. Calloway, would look up from her desk, “her dragon eye on the front door” and if sunlight passed through young Welty’s dress, the librarian sent her home. “You could just put on another petticoat if you wanted a book that badly from the public library” (29).
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Published on June 26, 2012 03:04