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George Washington Cable

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more