Harris, George Washington
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Harris, George Washington (1814–69), Tennessee River steamboat captain, later became a political writer and contributed humorous sketches to local newspapers and
The Spirit of the Times. He is best known for his
Sut Lovingood. Yarns (1867), a collection of the tall tales and humor of the Old Southwest.
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Stones in the Quarry: George Cable's Strange True Stories of Louisiana.(CE)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; The career of George Cable, southern historiographer and writer...on to apply this to three texts by George Washington Cable, "Attalie Brouillard" "Salome...form in the texts of southern writer George Cable, whom one could call a man...
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George Washington Cable and Bonaventure: a new Orleans author's literary sojourn into Acadiana.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; In 1888, when George Washington Cable, the New Orleans author who had gained...product of a longstanding interest on Cable's part in Acadiana and its people...half later, at the behest of Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., who was collecting...
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Real Change: George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and the Crime of '73
Magazine article from: The Arizona Quarterly; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...to the bottom of the sea and hold us there while all the world sails over us. George Washington Cable, "The Freedman's Case in Equity" TO SAY GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE'S The Grandissimes (1880) is set in New Orleans at the time of the Louisiana...
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Pr. George's Cable Agreement Promises Upgrades
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the chief provider of cable TV service in Prince George's County, plans...Nicholas Miller, whose Washington-based telecommunications...hired to help Prince George's County negotiate...agreement with Prince George's County. He said...
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner, by Barbara...cultural tensions that both enrich and complicate George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880), Mark Twain's Pudd...
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Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, by Christopher Benfey. New York: Knopf, 1997...intertwined with those of New Orleans of the 1870s: George Washington Cable and Kate Chopin. The result is a series...
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Fox Parrots Bush Campaign in Attack on New Film's Sponsors and George Soros; Cable Network's Critics Cite New Evidence that Fox is The Republican News Channel.
PR Newswire; 7/13/2004; 700+ words
; ...Cheney campaign in the cable network's attempt to...taking orders from a George Soros-funded web site...2004) * By the way, George Soros has provided no...billionaire currency trader George Soros have pledged upwards...from a new report by the Washington, DC-based Center for...
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Christopher Benfey, Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Christopher Benfey, Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) Most art historical accounts of Degas' work and life focus on his contributions...
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Liberal visions of reconstruction: Lydia Maria child's a romance of the republic and George Washington cable's the Grandissimes.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...left unresolved. (2) Observed Philadelphia lawyer Sidney George Fisher in 1866: "It seems our fate never to get rid of the...blacks who escaped bondage after the war. In the fall of 1865, George William Curtis, former abolitionist circuit speaker and since...
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JONES COMMUNICATIONS TO ACQUIRE NORTH PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD. CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEM
PR Newswire; 8/1/1996; 700+ words
; ...acquire from Maryland Cable Partners, L.P...system in northern Prince George's County, Maryland...disclosed. The Prince George's County system is...system in southern Prince George's County recently acquired...subscriber count in its Washington, D.C. cluster to...
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George Washington Cable
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Washington Cable The American novelist George Washington Cable (1844-1925) was an important regional writer whose best-received books were set in Louisiana. He was also an early Southern advocate of civil rights for African Americans...
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Cable, George Washington
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Cable, George Washington (1844–1925), born in New Orleans, served in the Confederate...the unhappy marriage of a New England clergyman and a Southern girl. Cable, who continued to write until 1918, was a leader of the local...
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George Washington Bridge
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. Spanning the Hudson...178th Street in Manhattan, the George Washington Bridge was designed by Othmar...and the deck is suspended from cables composed of galvanized steel...
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Williams, Brian 1959-
Book article from: American Decades
...anchor on an all-news cable channel launched in...Catholic University and George Washington University. He never...Kansas. He moved to Washington, D.C., then to...and former presidents George Bush and Jimmy Carter...
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The E.W. Scripps Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...and radio stations and cable television systems...brothers James and George Scripps and his half...he was owner. In 1894 George Scripps pooled his interest...each for E.W. and George Scripps and one-fifth...Four years later, the Washington-based Seattle Star...
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