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George Washington Cable was born in New Orleans, the son of a Virginia-born father, George W. Cable, and a mother, Rebecca Boardman Cable, whose ancestors were New England Puritans.
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At the centre of this novel is a story of two lovers from feuding Creole families in early 19th century New Orleans. The romance of "the grandissimes" the masked ball at the beginning of the story, the conversations in patois, the scenes between reluctant but eventually blessed lovers, the colours of the Creole spring and the French quarter helped make George Washington Cable famous in America during the 1880s. But in contrast to the idealized romance is Cable's accurate, unflattering portrait of Creole gentility and his arguments for racial equality.
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How is this book unique? • Font adjustments & biography included • Unabridged (100% Original content) • Illustrated About Strange True Stories Of Louisiana by George Washington Cable George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.
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George Washington Cable was born in New Orleans, the son of a Virginia-born father, George W. Cable, and a mother, Rebecca Boardman Cable, whose ancestors were New England Puritans.
George left school at fourteen.
When George's father died, 14-year-old George left high school and became the chief support of his mother and her sizable family. He served in the Confederate Army until the end of the Civil War. After working at several small jobs, Cable became a columnist and reporter on the New Orleans Picayune.
Stories sold to Northern magazines from 1873 to 1878 provided insufficient funds to support dependent relatives and a rapidly growing family (four daughters and a son by 1879), and he dropped writing for a time to work at three bookkeeping jobs. But payment he received for research for the U. S. Census and the success of Old Creole Days (1879), a collection of his stories, enabled him once more to devote full time to writing, the fruits of which were a novel, The Grandissimes (1880).
Northern readers who particularly enjoyed regional literature delighted in Cable's uniquely graceful and delicate evocations of New Orleans and Louisiana plantation country. By contrast, the Creoles, descendants of French or Spanish settlers of the Mississippi Delta country, disliked Cable's representations of them. He was fiercely criticized for having attacked various Southern practices and attitudes (including the treatment of African Americans) in his speeches, articles, and books such as The Grandissimes, Madame Delphine (1881), Dr. Sevier (1884), and The Silent South (1885). During Northern travels, notably a joint reading tour with Mark Twain in 1884-1885, Cable found the atmosphere friendlier, and in 1885 he moved his family (eventually including eight children, seven surviving childhood) to Northampton, Massachusetts, which was destined to be his home until his death. Cable continued to champion African Americans rights in articles and lectures during years when the cause was not popular even in the North. Although Bonaventure (1888), a collection of stories, contained few social preachments, The Negro Question (1890) attacked racism. Cable's best work appeared before 1890. John March, Southerner (1895) showed his weakness in portraying an area other than Louisiana, and The Cavalier (1901), though a financial success, was an inferior swashbuckling romance. Gideon's Band (1914) authentically pictures of Mississippi River life but is theatrical.
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A celebrated novelist in his own day, George Washington Cable remains admired as one who combined the local color with realism, and as a principled social reformer whose progressive stance on race relations earned him the enmity of his native Louisiana audience. Cable’s family background included old Virginia ancestors on his father’s side and strict New England Calvinists on his mother’s, a combination that some critics have seen as foreshadowing Cable’s ambivalent attraction to and repugnance of the lush, languid scenes and sensual Creole culture of his birthplace. Cable’s anti-segregationist feelings might, in turn, be foreseen in the fact that his father’s family freed their slaves on moving from Virginia to Pennsylvania.
In 1869 Cable married Louise Stewart Bartlett, who would be his inspiration and assistant for 35 years. After many years of illness, Louise Cable died in 1904. In 1906 Cable married Eva C. Stevenson, who died in 1923; and in that year he married Hannah Cowing, who survived his death on January 31, 1925.