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"The Wife of His Youth" follows Mr. Ryder, a biracial man who was born and reared free before the Civil War. He heads the "Blue Veins Society", a social organization for colored people in a northern town; the membership consists of people with a high proportion of European ancestry, who look more white than black.
"The Sheriff's Children" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt in his collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line.Chesnutt's work was written during the era of post-bellum literature in which themes of racism were explored, specifically in southern American states.
"The Passing of Grandison" was first collected in The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899). "The Passing of Grandison" is a short story written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published in the collection The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899). [1]
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Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees (1865–1909), of the Manchester Regiment, [3] and Edith Ellen (1868–1942) known as "Nelly", daughter of barrister and manufacturer Montagu Woodmass, JP, [4] [5] Georgie was born in Fleet, Hampshire on 16 October 1892.
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The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt.First published in 1899, The Conjure Woman is considered a seminal work of African-American literature composed of seven short stories, set in Patesville, North Carolina.
Evelyn's Husband is the African American author Charles W. Chesnutt's attempt at portraying white life in Boston in the early 1900s. The book examines the role of fate on the lives of two men, one older and one younger, in their pursuit of the same woman.