Quotation by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965), U.S. educator. Many a Good Crusade, part 2 (1954).

Gildersleeve, though Dean of Barnard College in New York City, lived in England much of the time with her "intimate friend," the Englishwoman Caroline Spurgeon.
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