Ellen Wood

Ellen Wood may refer to:

  • Ellen Wood (author) (1814–1887), English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood"
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood (born 1942), historian and critic of political theory
  • Ellen Thelma Wood (1901–1970), artist, model for Robin Vote in Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood

Famous quotes containing the words ellen wood, ellen and/or wood:

    We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
    Ellen Wood (1813–87)

    I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.
    —Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)

    the wood berries bin
    of forest was new and full....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)