Author:George Washington Cable
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American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native Louisiana. His fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "G. W. Ca."
This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "G. W. Ca."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "G. W. Ca."
George Washington Cable
Works[edit]
Articles[edit]
- “The Dance in Place Congo,” in Southern Life in Southern Literature (extract from the article originally contributed to the Century Magazine, v. XXXI, February 1886, pp. 517-531).
Contributions to EB9[edit]
- "New Orleans," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (17) (1884)
Contributions to EB1911[edit]
- "Bryant, William Cullen," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Books[edit]
- The Silent South (1885) IA
- The Negro Question
- Strange True Stories of Louisiana
- Old Creole Days
- Cavalier
- Grandissimes
- Amateur Garden
- Madame Delphine
- Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War
- Strong Hearts
- Kincaid's Battery
- Bylow Hill
- Gideon's Band
- Bonaventure
- Dr. Sevier
- Flower of the Chapdelaines
Poetry[edit]
- "The New Arrival" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904)
Works about Cable[edit]
- "Cable, George Washington," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Cable, George Washington," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Cable, George Washington," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "George Washington Cable" in Southern Life in Southern Literature, 1917
- "Cable, George W.," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
On his works[edit]
- "Grandissimes, The," by Edwin Mims in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Old Creole Days," by Edwin Mims in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1925, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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