Josephine Pinckney

thumb|The dense woods hung with grey Spanish moss, the nostalgic ruins of plantation houses destroyed by war or fire, the cypress pools of clear black water in which the herons stand like fabulous white blooms on their stalks — these trappings of the Gothic romances have their old power to stir the imagination. Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney (January 25, 1895 – October 4, 1957) was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first best-selling novel was the social comedy Three O'Clock Dinner (1945) Quotes Physically the Low Country retains its glamorous air under the scourings and sweepings of industrial change. 'Down on the salt,' as they say, the sea-islands still offer their long, palmetto-fringed beaches and their wide green marshes to the enormous sky. A little way inland the dense woods hung with grey Spanish moss, the nostalgic ruins of plantation houses destroyed by war or fire, the cypress pools of clear black water in which the herons stand like fabulous white blooms on their stalks — these trappings of the Gothic romances have their old power to stir the imagination. Article written during World War II to introduce the state of South Carolina to British readers. Quoted in John Gunther, Inside U.S.A. (1947) ch. 42, p. 724 Augustus sat hunched on the sofa, strangely shrunken; even the Charvet dressing gown had an air of ruin. Splendid in Ashes (New York: The Viking Press, 1958) ch. 4, p. 127 External links Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Poets from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Columbia University alumni Category:People from Charleston Category:1895 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Women born in the 19th century