This author also depicted a soldier of Austin's brigade who wanted to be where "Shakespeare was part of the baggage, where Pope was quoted, where Coleridge and Byron and Poe were recited," in The Cavalier.
One work by this author opens by describing Ruth and Godfrey walking on an old street which kept the "New England Sabbath" so decently, Bylow Hill. This author also depicted a soldier of Austin's brigade who wanted to be where "Shakespeare was part of the baggage, where Pope was quoted, where Coleridge and Byron and Poe were recited," in The Cavalier. He attacked Jim Crow laws in his essay "The Silent South," advocated for prison reform in Dr. Sevier, and wrote about a quadroon who swears that her daughter Olive is really the offspring of a white woman in Madame Delphine. In another of his novels, Honore struggles to reconcile the idealism of Joseph Frowenfeld with the prideful antiquated ways of his Uncle Agricola Fusilier. For 10 points, name this Louisiana-born author of Old Creole Days and The Grandissimes.
One work by this author opens by describing Ruth and Godfrey walking on an old street which kept the "New England Sabbath" so decently, Bylow Hill.
{George Washington Cable}