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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


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    George W. Cable: The Northampton Years » Read Now

    by Philip Butcher. 288 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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...
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    George W. Cable: His Life and Letters » Read Now

    by Lucy Leffingwell Cable Bikle. 306 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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...
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    Bylow Hill » Read Now

    by George W. Cable, F. C. Yohn. 215 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...BYLOW HILL -ii- "Father," laughed the daughter, "isnt this rather youngish?" BYLOW HILL By GEORGE W. CABLE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR By F. C. YOHN CHARLES SCRIBATERS SONS...
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    Kincaid's Battery » Read Now

    by George W. Cable. 396 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...BATTERY BY GEORGE W. CABLE ILLUSTRATED BY...the birthday of Washington. Not of him, however...Callenders; the Washington Artillery. Illustrious...Eugene Chopin, to George...
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    Mark Twain and G. W. Cable: The Record of a Literary Friendship » Read Now

    by Mark Twain, George W. Cable. 148 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...dozen vast red posters with the single line, MARK TWAIN--CABLE Nov. 16--Op. House --little poster at bottom for date place...We are on the way to Brooklyn. Must go Monday...
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    The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South (Chap. Six "Heresy in the New South: The Case for George W. Cable") » Read Now

    by Lawrence J. Friedman. 184 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...states rights-oriented Washington States . During the...command of aging George Prentice Louisville...Autobiography New York: George H. Doran Company...Future New York and...
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    New South Narratives of Freedom: Rereading George Washington Cable's "'Tite Poulette" and Madame Delphine, in MELUS » Read Now

    by James Robert Payne. 22 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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...
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    Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now

    by Francesco Pontuale. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...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:...
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    Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History ("George Washington Cable (October 12, 1834-January 31, 1925): Human Rights and Civil Rights Activist" begins on p. 33) » Read Now

    by Robin Kadison Berson. 346 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books. Their inspiring biographical profiles reveal the struggle, in the face of entrenched opposition, for a just, equitable, and humane society. More...
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    American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("George Washington Cable (1844-1925)" begins on p. 57) » Read Now

    by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical...
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    The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s ("Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)" begins on p. 45) » Read Now

    by Robert L. Gale. 462 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Whether for browsing or research, readers will reap rewards from this entertaining and enlightening compendium of the persons, events, institutions, and ideas of the era. Gale focuses on writers and their works, but also represented in the 500 entries are painters and politicians, social workers and...

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