Description |
1 online resource (xix, 236 pages) : map |
Contents |
Grand Isle -- Cheniere Caminada -- Pointe Coupee Parish -- The levees of Pointe Coupee -- Avoyelles Parish -- St. James Parish -- Natchitoches Parish -- Livingston Parish -- Bayou Lafourche plantations -- Assumption Parish -- Terrebonne Parish -- Morgan City -- St. Mary Parish -- Last Island -- Timbalier Island -- Lafayette Parish -- Sabine Parish -- Vernon and Rapides parishes -- Morehouse and West Carroll parishes -- Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University -- Shreveport -- Home in New Orleans -- Beyond our door |
Summary |
When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses." Writing under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) became the first full-time newswoman for the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1881. For more than a decade she was the woman's page editor and wrote a Sunday column, "Catharine Cole's Letter," that established her as one of the most popular writers in the South. Cole wrote fiction, essays, editorials on |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898 -- Homes and haunts -- Louisiana
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Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Homes
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Travel
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Louisiana -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078483
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Louisiana
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Electronic book
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Author |
McLaughlin, Joan B.
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McLaughlin, Jack, 1926-
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ISBN |
9781429460606 |
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1429460601 |
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9781604730739 |
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1604730730 |
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