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Grace Elizabeth King (November 29, 1851 – January 14, 1932) was an American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and a leader in historical and literary activities. King began her literary career as a response to George Washington Cable 's negative portrayal of Louisiana Creoles. [1] King desired to create a sympathetic ...
Jul 19, 2022 · Grace King. Perhaps the seminal event of Grace King’s past occurred in 1862 when she was nine and watched Union troops come ashore to take New Orleans. The trauma propelled her sectional allegiance. Women dealing with the war and reconstruction became the subject of her stories.
May 19, 2016 · New Orleans novelist and historian Grace King made the city and state of her birth an abiding theme in her work. Prolific in several genres—short fiction, the novel, memoir, biography, social and cultural history—King published her work in major national magazines, such as Harper’s, Century, and The Yale Review.
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Mar 29, 2013 · Grace King was born into a well-heeled, aristocratic family in New Orleans and lived a life that such status entails, until New Orleans fell into the Union Army’s hands in 1862. Her family left the city at that time to her father’s plantation Sugar Plantation near New Iberia, LA.
Feb 2, 2004 · Grace King in Her Journals, 1886-1910. These previously unpublished private writings expand our understanding of Grace King (1852–1932) as a writer and as a nineteenth-century, middle-class, white southern woman.
Mar 1, 1999 · 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.
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The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King’s fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically.
