The complete online text of Bylow Hill by George Washington Cable.

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 African Americans. George Washington Cable was born in...

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 mother, Rebecca Boardman Cable, was from a Calvinistic f...

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 Orleans in 1844, Walden (1854) and Moby-Dick (1851) were no...

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Given the weather during the 2004 Mid-Winter Conference, you may wonder why ROA doesn't choose Miami, San Antonio, San Diego-or any place where it's warm-instead of Washington, D.C.! The choice, however, is deliberate. The nation's capital is the locale for Mid-Winter so that ROAs...