Author:John Esten Cooke

John Esten Cooke
(1830–1886)

John Esten Cooke

Works

• The youth of Jefferson, 1854 (external scan)
• Leather stocking and silk; or, Hunter John Myers and his times: a story of the valley of Virginia, 1854 (external scan)
• The Virginia comedians: or, Old days in the Old Dominion, 1854 (external scan)
• The last of the foresters, or, The humors on the border: a story of the old Virginia frontier, 1856 (external scan)
• Henry St. John, gentleman, of "Flower of Hundreds," in the county of Prince George, Virginia. A tale of 1774-'75, 1859 (external scan)
• Commercial enfranchisement of the Confederate States of America, with original articles on a new system of weights and measures, and new coins for the Confederate States, 1862 (external scan)
• The Song of the Rebel, 1863
• The Life of Stonewall Jackson, 1863 (external scan)
• Stonewall Jackson: a military biography, 1866 (external scan)
• Wearing of the Gray (1867) (transcription project) (external scan)
• Fairfax: Or, The Master of Greenway Court, a Chronicle of the Valley of the Shenandoah, 1868 (external scan)
• Mohun; or, The last days of Lee and his paladins, 1868 (external scan)
• Hilt to hilt: or, Days and nights on the banks of the Shenandoah, 1869 (external scan)
• Hammer and rapier, 1870 (external scan)
• A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, 1871 (external scan)
• Out of the foam, 1871 (external scan)
• Doctor Vandyke, 1872 (external scan)
• Picturesque America, 1872 vol 1, vol 2
• Her majesty the queen, 1873 external source
• Pretty Mrs. Gaston, and other stories, 1874 (external scan)
• Justin Harley: a romance of old Virginia, 1875 (external scan)
• Canolles: the fortunes of a partisan of '81, 1877 (external scan)
• Professor Pressensee, materialist and inventor, 1878 (external scan)
• Stories of the Old Dominion, from the settlement to the end of the revolution, 1879 (external scan)
• The Virginia Bohemians, 1880 (external scan)

• "Madison, James," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Monroe, James," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)

Poetry

• A poem, The Broken Mug, Confederate Veteran Vol.14 pps 222-223. ref

Works about Cooke

• "William Gilmore Simms: the novelist, the poet." in Pioneers of Southern Literature by Samuel Albert Link, 1899 vol 1
• John Esten Cooke as a Novelist by Carl Holliday, 1905-04-01 from The Sewanee Review, Volume 13. (external scan)
• "Cooke, John Esten," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• John Esten Cooke, Virginian by John Owen, 1922 (external scan)