Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio: A Female Alternate Personality (The One From the Last Post?) Participates in The Creative Writing Process

From the first two pages:

“The writer, an old man with a white mustache…was past sixty…but something inside him was altogether young…it was a woman, young, and wearing a coat of mail like a knight…

“In the bed the writer had a dream that was not a dream. As he grew somewhat sleepy but was still conscious, figures began to appear before his eyes. He imagined the young…thing within himself was driving a long procession of figures before his eyes…

“For an hour the procession…passed before the eyes of the old man, and then…he crept out of bed and began to write…”

Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio [1919]. A Norton Critical Edition, Edited by Charles E. Modlin and Ray Lewis White. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.