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Name: George Washington Cable
Birth Date: 1844
Death Date: January 31, 1925
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Place of Death: Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, novelist

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Biography of George Washington Cable
463 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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Biography of George Washington Cable
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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 mother, Rebecca Boardman Cable, was from a Calvinistic...
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Biography of George Washington Cable
4,307 words, approx. 14 pages
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...


Quotations
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George Washington Cable Quotes
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There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my...


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George Washington Cable Information
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Cable was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. At the end of the war in 1865, he went into journalism, writing for the New Orleans Picayune, where he would remain through 1879. By that time, he...


News and Journals
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The Southern Literary Journal
George Washington Cable and Bonaventure: a new Orleans author's literary sojourn into Acadiana.(Critical Essay)
09/22/2002: 6,193 words, approx. 21 pages
In 1888, when George Washington Cable, the New Orleans author who had gained fame through his Creole stories and novels, published three stories of Acadian Louisiana as a novel tided Bonaventure, the book was the product of a longstanding interest on Cable's part...
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The Mississippi Quarterly
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Review)
12/22/1998: 3,842 words, approx. 13 pages
Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, by Christopher Benfey. New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 294 pp. $27.50. VERY LIKELY, FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER EDGAR DEGAS would have not regarded New Orleans, where he...
 


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