Letters to Harold Ward [manuscript], 1919-1923.

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Letters to Harold Ward [manuscript], 1919-1923.

James Branch Cabell letters to Harold Ward, 1919-1923.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ward, Harold 1890-

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...