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Author : Grace King
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
Grace King Of New Orleans written by Grace King and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Not as well-known as some of her contemporaries—Mark Twain, George W. Cable, and Joel Chandler Harris, to name a few—author and historian Grace King (1851–1932) was nonetheless highly praised in her own right. She garnered attention from such eminent critics as William Dean Howells, and her work frequently appeared in Harper’s and Century Magazine. She published thirteen volumes of fiction, history, biography, and memoir. What contributed to King’s critical acclaim, and her continued importance across time, was the panoramic view of social and historical New Orleans that she captured in her writing. She was, scholar Robert Bush argues, one of the most talented and perceptive citizens of New Orleans during the post–Civil War period. In pursuing an intellectual career, King broke with many Old South traditions. She embraced Anglo-Saxon and Creole French cultures. Much of her work is especially interesting for the way in which her view of the southern temper and cultural contribution supplemented that of other writers of the period. In his introduction, Bush analyzes the breadth of King’s work, leading the reader on a biographical journey that clearly establishes King as an important symbol of a bygone era. He then offers selections that cover the full range of her writing: chapters from her autobiography, Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters; her major short fiction, including five uncollected stories and the best of her Balcony Stories; a large portion of The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard, a novel about life during Reconstruction; sections from her historical writings, including New Orleans: The Place and the People; a series of biographical sketches of Mark Twain and others; excerpts from her notebooks; and a group of more than twenty letters. Grace King of New Orleans offers readers a nuanced understanding of King’s impressions of the people and places of New Orleans as well as southern life and culture.
Grace King Of New Orleans
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Author : Grace Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Release Date : 1973
Grace King Of New Orleans written by Grace Elizabeth King and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Literary Criticism categories.
Memories Of A Southern Woman Of Letters
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Author : Grace King
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2008-03-26
Memories Of A Southern Woman Of Letters written by Grace King and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-26 with Authors, American categories.
In this enchanting memoir of her life in New Orleans, Grace King depicts a world that few can imagine. From the Civil War to the Great Depression, she records the crises and changes in Crescent City society, as well as her own development as a writer. Within these pages we chance a glimpse at a portrait of a woman who went through war and its aftermath and later assumed the role of independent woman and sole breadwinner.
Monsieur Motte
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Author : Grace Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Monsieur Motte written by Grace Elizabeth King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Louisiana categories.
New Orleans
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Author : Grace King
language : en
Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers
Release Date : 2011-03
New Orleans written by Grace King and has been published by Cornerstone Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03 with History categories.
Photographic reproduction of Grace King's classic 1917 account of New Orleans and some of the people who made it great. Illustrated.
Grace King
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Author : Robert B. Bush
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
Grace King written by Robert B. Bush and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the Civil War, her loyalty was kept burning by her family’s struggle to regain its wealth and maintain its social position during the long agony of Reconstruction. In Grace King: A Southern Destiny, Robert Bush tells of King’s life and her art, both of which she enthusiastically dedicated to the memory and welfare of her region, her city, and her family. When she began writing in 1886, it was out of a sense of anger at what she saw as George Washington Cable’s disloyalty to the South, his deliberately false portrayal of New Orleans’ Creoles and blacks. King was herself a conservative in racial matters, and a number of her stories celebrate the loyalty that she has observed freed slaves showing their former masters. But Grace King was far from conservative in her determination to earn money as a writer and to master the ideas of her era—neither endeavor considered a particularly appropriate ambition for a patrician woman of her time. She was proud to be able to contribute to her family’s income, and she developed a sharp eye for the fluctuations in the literary marketplace. In the late 1880s King worked in the local-color genre that was then in vogue. When the demand for that school of regional writing declined in the 1890s, she turned to the shorter “balcony stories” in which the details of local background were minimized. Then later in the decade, she focused her talents on writing Louisiana history after she found that publishers wanted the kind of sound, colorful work she was capable of producing. Grace King’s major accomplishments in fiction are a small number of first-rate stories and a quiet, realistic novel about New Orleans during Reconstruction—The Pleasant Ways of St. Médard. Her best historical work is New Orleans, the Place and the People. However the significance and fascination of her life lies not just in the pages of the books she wrote but also in her role as a literary champion of the South, carrying her determined views from New Orleans to New York, New England, Canada, England, and France.
Creole Families Of New Orleans
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Author : Grace King
language : en
Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers
Release Date : 2013-05-18
Creole Families Of New Orleans written by Grace King and has been published by Cornerstone Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-18 with categories.
This photographic reproduction of the classic 1921 work by Grace King is a delight to all who love New Orleans, its people and history. We are given a detailed, yet thoroughly enjoyable, look at of some of the events and families who transformed the city into a historical and cultural gumbo in a young United States.
A History Of Louisiana
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Author : Grace Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-21
A History Of Louisiana written by Grace Elizabeth King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-21 with categories.
Hardcover reprint of the original 1893 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: King, Grace Elizabeth.A History Of Louisiana, By Grace King And John R. Ficklen. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: King, Grace Elizabeth. A History Of Louisiana, By Grace King And John R. Ficklen, . New York, New Orleans: University Pub. Co., 1893.
Creole Families Of New Orleans
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Author : Grace Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Creole Families Of New Orleans written by Grace Elizabeth King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Creoles categories.
Balcony Stories
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Author : Grace Elizabeth King
language : en
Publisher: Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press
Release Date : 1968
Balcony Stories written by Grace Elizabeth King and has been published by Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Fiction categories.
THERE is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days. And in that country the women love to sit and talk together of summer nights, on balconies, in their vague, loose, white garments, - men are not balcony sitters, - with their sleeping children within easy hearing, the stars breaking the cool darkness, or the moon making a show of light - oh, such a discreet show of light - through the vines. And the children inside, waking to go from one sleep into another, hear the low, soft mother-voices on the balcony, talking about this person and that, old times, old friends, old experiences; and it seems to them, hovering a moment in wakefulness, that there is no end of the world or time, or of the mother-knowledge; but, illimitable as it is, the mother-voices and the mother-love and protection fill it all, - with their mother's hand in theirs, children are not afraid even of God, - and they drift into slumber again, their little dreams taking all kinds of pretty reflections from the great unknown horizon outside, as their fragile soap-bubbles take on reflections from the sun and clouds. Experiences, reminiscences, episodes, picked up as only women know how to pick them up from other women's lives, - or other women's destinies, as they prefer to call them, - and told as only women know how to relate them; what God has done or is doing with some other woman whom they have known - that is what interests women once embarked on their own lives, - the embarkation takes place at marriage, or after the marriageable time, - or, rather, that is what interests the women who sit of summer nights on balconies. For in those long-moon countries life is open and accessible, and romances seem to be furnished real and gratis, in order to save, in a languor-breeding climate, the ennui of reading and writing books. Each woman has a different way of picking up and relating her stories, as each one selects different pieces, and has a personal way of playing them on the piano.