The complete online text of The Flower of the Chapdelaines 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...

The master of both nylon- and steel-string guitar talks about how he develops ideas as a composing tool. Michael Chapdelaine loves to play-and that's a good thing, because with more than 80 shows to play this year, there is time for little else...

The relationship between mother and daughter is featured in the French-Canadian novel 'Maria Chapdelaine' by Louis Hemon, which was first published in 1914 just before World War I. The mother-daughter relationship reflects the archetypal pattern of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, although Freudian...