{"product_id":"9781604730739","title":"Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) became the first full-time newswoman for the New Orleans \u003ci\u003eDaily Picayune\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCole wrote fiction, essays, editorials on women's issues, and travel pieces. But her accounts of journeys through Louisiana's rural parishes by rail, steamboat, carriage, buggy, and on foot brought her writing to the state's working men and women as well as its plantation aristocracy. \u003ci\u003eLouisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole\u003c\/i\u003e gathers these travel writings for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTouring most of Louisiana's parishes, taking in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, Morgan City, and Grand Isle, Cole revealed in her journalism much about an exotic, unspoiled Louisiana and the Gilded Age South as a whole. A punishing 1,800-mile buggy trip through forests, swamps, bayous, and along the Gulf Coast made her a celebrity writer who, according to her contemporaries, \"knew more about Louisiana than any other person alive.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan B. McLaughlin is a retired associate professor of English at Clemson University. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eContemporary Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConcerning Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArizona Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Carolina Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other periodicals. Jack McLaughlin is a retired professor of English and humanities at Clemson University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn more about Catharine Cole at catharinecole.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134777213168,"sku":"9781604730739","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604730739_p0.jpg?v=1763827278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604730739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}