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Author Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898.

Title Louisiana voyages : the travel writings of Catharine Cole / Martha R. Field ; selected and edited by Joan B. McLaughlin and Jack McLaughlin
Edition 1st ed
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006

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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
Subject Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898 -- Homes and haunts -- Louisiana
SUBJECT Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Homes
Travel
SUBJECT Louisiana -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078483
Subject Louisiana
Form Electronic book
Author McLaughlin, Joan B.
McLaughlin, Jack, 1926-
ISBN 9781429460606
1429460601
9781604730739
1604730730