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Louisiana Voyages : The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole /
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. Fiel...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource: map |
| ISBN: | 9781604730739 |