RUTH AND GODFREY
The old street, keeping its New England Sabbath afternoon
so decently under its majestic elms, was as goodly
an example of its sort as the late seventies of the
century just gone coul...
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The American novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) was an important regional writer whose best-received books were set in Louisiana. He was also an early Southern advocate of civil rights for A...
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George Washington Cable was the most significant Southern writer in the crucial years from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the first decades of the twentieth century. When he was born in New Orlea...
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George Washington Cable's antecedents were not typical for a southern writer born prior to the Civil War. His father, George Washington Cable, Sr., came from an established Virginia line, while his mo...
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Bylow Hill
George Washington Cable
George Washington Cable