Louisiana voyages : the travel writings of Catharine Cole / selected and edited by Joan B. McLaughlin and Jack McLaughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898.

Contributor:

McLaughlin, Joan B.

McLaughlin, Jack, 1926-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louisiana--Description and travel.

Louisiana.

Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood, 1855-1898--Homes and haunts--Louisiana.

Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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, editoria

Contents:

Grand Isle

Cheniere Caminada

Pointe Coupee Parish

The levees of Pointe Coupee

Avoyelles Parish

St. James Parish

Natchitoches Parish

Livingston Parish

Bayou Lafourche plantations

Assumption Parish

Terrebonne Parish

Morgan City

St. Mary Parish

Last Island

Timbalier Island

Lafayette Parish

Sabine Parish

Vernon and Rapides parishes

Morehouse and West Carroll parishes

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University

Shreveport

Home in New Orleans

Beyond our door.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.

ISBN:

9786613434449

1-283-43444-X

1-60473-073-0

1-4294-6060-1

OCLC:

191939176