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,...

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,...