George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

Biography (Wikipedia)

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The George Washington Cable House in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The George Washington Cable House in New Orleans, Louisiana.

George Washington Cable is buried at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts.

George Washington Cable is buried at Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts.

‘Sieur George (1873)

Belles Desmoiselles Plantation (1874)

‘Tite Poulette (1874)

Jean-ah Poquelin (1875)

Madame Délicieuse (1875)

Café des Exilés (1876)

Old Creole Days (1879, 1890)

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (1880)

Madame Delphine (1881)

History and Present Condition of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Report on the City of Austin, Texas (1881)

Who Are the Creoles? (1883)

The Creoles in the American Revolution (1883)

The Creoles of Louisiana (1884, 1910)

Dr. Sevier (1884, 1885)

The Freedman’s Case in Equity (1885)

The Silent South: Together With the Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System (1885, 1889)

The Dance in Place Congo (1886)

Creole Slave Songs (1886)

Au Large (1887-1888)

A Layman’s Hints (1887-1888)

What Shall the Negro Do? (1888)

A Simpler Southern Question (1888)

Strange True Stories of Louisiana (1888, 1889)

Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana (1888, 1904)

War Diary of a Union Woman in the South (1889)

The Negro Question (1890, 1903)

The Southern Struggle For Pure Government: An Address (1890)

The Busy Man’s Bible and How to Study and Teach It (1891)

A Memory of Roswell Smith: Born March 30, 1829, Died April 19, 1892 (1892)

Does the Negro Pay For His Education? (1892)

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (1893, 1898)

John March, Southerner (1894)

October 22, 1896 Letter to Charles T. Scott (1896)

Strong Hearts (1899)

The Cable Story Book: Selections For School Reading (1900)

The Cavalier (1901)

Bylow Hill (1902)

Kincaid’s Battery (1908)

"Posson Jone'" and Père Raphaël (1909)

The Amateur Garden (1914)

Gideon’s Band: A Tale of the Mississippi (1914)

The Flower of the Chapdelaines (1918)

Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (1918, 1919)

George W. Cable: His Life and Letters (1928)

Mark Twain and G.W. Cable: The Record of a Literary Relationship (1960)


This 5-part story appeared in the November and December 1887, and the January, February and March 1888 issues of The Century Magazine.

This 2-part article appeared in the December 17, 1887 and December 15, 1888 issues of The Sunday School Times.

Source: Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.

Source: Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.