1. Louisiana Voyages : The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole
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Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, McLaughlin, Joan B., McLaughlin, Jack, Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, McLaughlin, Joan B., and McLaughlin, Jack
- Abstract
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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- 2006