CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON

1844–1925, American author, b. New Orleans. He is remembered primarily for his early sketches and novels of creole life, which established his reputation as an important local-color writer. Cable served as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War and afterward was a writer and reporter for the New Orleans Picayune. His short stories of New Orleans culture began to appear in Scribner's Monthly in 1873; they were collected and published as Old Creole Days (1879). Among his novels are The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881), Dr. Sevier (1884), and Gideon's Band (1914). Cable's works depict the picturesque life of creoles in antebellum Louisiana with charm and freshness. Discernible in some of them is the author's moral opposition to slavery and class distinction. After 1884, Cable lived in Northampton, Mass. His later works, notably the essays collected in The Silent South (1885) and The Negro Question (1890), reveal his concern with social evils, particularly with the betrayal of the freed African American slaves.

See his letters, ed. by L. L. Leffingwell (1928, repr. 1967); biography by L. D. Rubin (1969); study by P. C. Butcher (1959).

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George W. Cable: His Life and Letters
Book by Lucy Leffingwell Cable Bikle; C. Scribners Sons, 1928
Subjects: Cable, George Washington--1844-1925
...on October 12 of that year of 1844, was born George Washington Cable, the fifth child and second son of George Washington Cable and his wife, Rebecca Boardman; in a land of...
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George W. Cable: the Northampton Years
Book by Philip Butcher; Columbia University Press, 1959
Subjects: Cable, George Washington--1844-1925
...was twenty-one years old, George Washington Cable was an intense young man...that unsettled year, young George Washington Cable had returned to his native...child and second son of George Washington Cable and his wife, Rebecca Boardman...
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The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799 - Vol. 3
Book by John C. Fitzpatrick, George Washington; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1931
Subjects: United States--History, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Washington Family
THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL EDITION From the HOUDON BUST, modeled...Vernon Ladies Association of the Union THE WRITINGS OF George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799...
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The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799 - Vol. 5
Book by John C. Fitzpatrick; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1931
Subjects: United States--History, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Washington Family
GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL EDITION THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON From the HOUDON BUST, modeled from...Association of the Union THE WRITINGS OF George Washington from the Original Manuscript...
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History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration ... Literature Series
Book; United States George Washington Bicenten 1932., 1932
THE "ATHENAEUM" PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON BY Gilbert Stuart HISTORY OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION VOLUME I Literature Series 1932 UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION WASHINGTON...
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Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
Journal article by Francesco Pontuale; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable (Book)--Reviews
...World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable by Francesco Pontuale...World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, by Christopher Benfey...New Orleans of the 1870s: George Washington Cable and Kate Chopin. The result...
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New South Narratives of Freedom: Rereading George Washington Cable's "'Tite Poulette" and Madame Delphine
Journal article by James Robert Payne; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Cable, George Washington--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Southern States--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Robert Payne Although George Washington Cable is now widely known as a...Stereotypes and the Writings of George Washington Cable, Grace King, Kate Chopin...the multiethnic fiction of George Washington Cable. Payne teaches American...
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Liberal Visions of Reconstruction: Lydia Maria Child's a Romance of the Republic and George Washington Cable's the Grandissimes
Journal article by Karsten H. Piep; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 31, 2003
Subjects: A Romance of the Republic (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Portrayals, American literature, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Cable, George Washington--Criticism and interpretation, Child, Lydia Maria--Criticism and interpretation, The Grandissimes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...17) Lukacs, 58. (18) George Washington Cable, The Negro Question, ed...Doubleday, 1958), 10. (19) George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes (New York...Introduction," The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable (New York: Penguin, 1988...
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Christopher H. Sterling: A Protean and Prolific Presence
Journal article by Michael C. Keith; Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Vol. 49, 2005
Subjects: George Washington University--Officials and employees, Sterling, Christopher H.--Management, Universities and colleges--Officials and employees, Universities and colleges--United States
...of Graduate Affairs at George Washington Universitys Colombian...of the broadcast and cable portions of his 1978...Survey of Broadcasting and Cable in the United States...Annotated Bibliography, with George Shiers, an update and...
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Presidential Difference in the Early Republic: The Highly Disparate Leadership Styles of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson
Journal article by Fred I. Greenstein; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Adams, John (American president)--Evaluation, Adams, John (American president)--Management, Adams, John (American president)--Political activity, Jefferson, Thomas--Evaluation, Jefferson, Thomas--Management, Jefferson, Thomas--Political activity, Leadership--Analysis, Washington, George (American president)--Evaluation, Washington, George (American president)--Management, Washington, George (American president)--Political activity
...the transatlantic cable, Nickles points out...The Indispensable George Washington The Founders appear...position to be filled by George Washington. Two decades before...in The Invention of George Washington that even Washingtons...
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Why Cable Costs Too Much; How Local Politicians and Cable Companies Conspire to Make Cable TV Overpriced
Magazine article by John A. Barnes; Washington Monthly, Vol. 21, June 1989
Subjects: Cable television--Corrupt practices, Cable television--Prices and rates, United States. Federal Communications Commission--Licenses
...the Sacramento lawsuit, other cable operators made a beeline for...public interest." Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the bill...hookups, anyone? The city of Washington, D.C. began its franchising...monopoly system. Keeping cable honest In contrast to the...
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Empire of the Son; How George Bush Rewrote the Book on the Imperial Presidency
Magazine article by James David Barber; Washington Monthly, Vol. 23, October 1991
Subjects: Bush, George--Military policy, Democracy--Social aspects, Presidents--Military policy, United States. Congress--Powers and duties, War and emergency powers--Political aspects
...issue like the regulation of cable television, no such confusion...rights of war and peace." George Mason was clearly opposed to...matters. In contrast, George Washington followed the direction of Congress...recess and much of official Washington was on vacation, senior Bush...
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Feds Chasing Down Corporate Fraud: Accounting 'Restatements' Have Become Code Words for Lies to Investors and Cheating, but George W. Bush Has Begun to Punish Corporate Misdeeds Severely
Magazine article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, October 29, 2002
Subjects: Adelphia Communications Corp.--Accounting and auditing, Adelphia Communications Corp.--Management, Bush, George W., Cable television broadcasting industry--Accounting and auditing, Communications industry, Diagnostic reagents industry--Accounting and auditing, Enron Corp.--Accounting and auditing, Enron Corp.--Cases, Fraud--Cases, Gas transmission industry--Accounting and auditing, Gas transmission industry--Cases, ImClone Systems Inc.--Accounting and auditing, Insider trading in securities--Cases, Lay, Kenneth L.--Management, Telecommunications services industry--Accounting and auditing, United States. Department of Justice--Investigations, United States. Department of Justice--Powers and duties, WorldCom Inc.--Accounting and auditing
...and board members of Adelphia Communications Corp., a cable-TV operator. Recently the three were indicted in New...economy, my advice is to drink heavily and recycle." George Washington University law professor Lawrence Mitchell, author of...
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The Freedom Tax: The Republican President Who's Raised Fees on Exactly the Things He Wants Immigrants to Do-Work Hard, Play by the Rules, and Become Citizens
Magazine article by Jonathan Rowe; Washington Monthly, Vol. 36, October 2004
Subjects: Bush, George W., Cable telephony, Immigrants, Internet telephony
...They happened on the watch of George W. Bush himself. And the target...taxes on exactly the things Washington supposedly wants immigrants...Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington; it "doesnt require" that...dominoes that begin to fall in Washington inflict pain up and down the...
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Tilting at Windmills
Magazine article by Charles Peters; Washington Monthly, Vol. 38, September 2006
Subjects: Casey, George W., Jr.--Military aspects, Casey, George W., Jr.--Political activity, Iraq--Military aspects, Obama, Barack--Political activity, United States foreign relations--Forecasts and trends, Washington--Political aspects
...reaching major Washington figures. Why the...channels available on cable television, meaning...State Department cable obtained by The Washington Posts Al Kamen. The cable, marked "sensitive...columnist who covered Washington society for six...
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New 'Distance Learning' Via Internet Is Far Out
Newspaper article by Barry Simmons; The Washington Times, November 14, 1997
Subjects: George Washington University
...masters degree from George Washington University...from a local cable station, she...MORE INFO: George Washington University distance...Leadership. Other Washington-area schools...885-1500. * George Mason University...
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Down Pat
Newspaper article by Bob Cohn; The Washington Times, July 9, 2000
Subjects: George Washington University
...The No. 3 scorer in George Washington University history...hugely successful in the cable television industry...July on the mall in Washington and taking the girls...Tallent was taken by the Washington Bullets in the sixth...
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Cable TV Price Controls Rejected; GAO Suggests Competition
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 25, 2003
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
...competition. Byline: William Glanz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Competition will do more to lower rapidly escalating cable-television rates than imposing new regulations...better than regulation," ESPN President George Bodenheimer said. Cox says it pays...
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Fox News Scores with Cable Viewers; VNS Goes AWOL
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 7, 2002
Subjects: Cable News Network, Cable television broadcasting industry
...AWOL Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The networks survived without...his head on election night. Among the cable news channels, Fox News won the evening...Yesterday marked the empowerment of George W. Bush. No longer by any rhetorical stretch...
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Bush Savors Cable TV with Its 'Hardball' Hosts
Newspaper article by Bill Sammon; The Washington Times, June 2, 2000
Subjects: Bush, George W.
...by Bill Sammon George W. Bush has begun granting long interviews on cable news shows that Vice...Mr. Matthews told The Washington Times. "A lot of people...Republican-slash-independent audience of any cable-news program. Its a demographic...change the topic." Cable-news shows, which are...
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Cable, George Washington
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON 1844 1925, American author, b. New...reputation as an important local-color writer. Cable served as a Confederate soldier in the...slavery and class distinction. After 1884, Cable lived in Northampton, Mass. His later...
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Bridge , Structure
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Wuhan, China, spans 2,028 ft (618 m). The longest cable-stayed bridge in the United States is the Dame Point...Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey, 3,524 ft (1,074 m); and George Washington Bridge , New York City, 3,500 ft (1,067 m). Combination...
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Creole
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...meaning. The picturesque life of the Louisiana creoles has been ably depicted in the works of Lafcadio Hearn, George Washington Cable, and Grace King. See F. J. Woods, Marginality and Identity (1972). ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Railroad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...It was not until 2000, however, that high-speed service began in the United States with the Acela Express, running between Washington, D.C., and Boston. Other countries that have or are developing high-speed rail lines include Australia, Finland, South Korea...
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American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...achieved by two men from New York: Washington Irving , who first won attention...William Hickling Prescott , George Bancroft , Francis Parkman...of Louisiana by George W. Cable , even the romance of the Old...far behind the broadness of George Ade s Fables (1899) for...


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