"Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delicious Vice] Reference

Vividly told, with a beautiful Octoroon as the central figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Louisiana girl and her Octoroon mother are no less clean cut and graphic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Saturday they went down town together, and "Zoe, the Octoroon Girl," was on for matinee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference

In this book the story of an Octoroon family is put forth in all the pathos and tragedy that is the lot of so many Negroes who belong wholly to neither race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

"The Octoroon" shows a fine feeling for romance as do all of the other pictures of Fuller that have been publicly visible, but it is romance obsessed with monotone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Among our number was an Octoroon woman by the name of Nancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker] Reference

I replied, "Yes; and I believe that you are Nancy the Octoroon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker] Reference

There was the fire in Theatre Royal, after the play of the "Octoroon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences of old Victoria] Reference

M'Closkey outbids all intending purchasers for the fair Octoroon, and becomes her possessor.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Adelphi] Reference

Professor Diana Williams, Wellesley College, History Department, "Staging The Octoroon in Reconstruction New Orleans".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall legal history speakers at Boston University] Reference

In "The Octoroon" especially she tore our hearts with it, so that it almost began to seem as if political issues were imminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference

On one of our visits to the "Octoroon House," as we entered the hall, a very pretty girl, an Octoroon, stepped out of her room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

Nancy (the Octoroon) was retained on the plantation, and I will ever remember the words spoken to me by her on the day I was sold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker] Reference

Dragoon Cahoon (militiaman, grandfather of Quadroon Cahoon, and great-grandfather of Octoroon Cahoon), and Triune Cahoon (the Trinitarian divine).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 4] Reference

The long-announced production or "The Octoroon," the new sensation drama by Mr. Boucicault, took place on Monday before a crowded audience which filled the house to the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Adelphi] Reference

(title page) Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Return to Menu Page for Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon ... by Louisa Picquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon -- John Fairfield, the Southern Abolitionist -- John and Mary -- Narrow Escapes of Fugitives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference

INSKEEP: Octoroon meaning one-eighth black.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Lives: The 'Strange' Tale Of Clarence King] Reference

(cover) Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Octoroon Based on The Octoroon "after creative disagreements with the play's author.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Adela, the Octoroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

June 24: celebrating The Octoroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Caruso's Cast Party on BroadwayWorld.com] Reference

Octoroon or Quadroon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

The Octoroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow and Sunshine] Reference

Boucicault's "Octoroon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)] Reference

"Octoroon or quadroon, makes no difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

“Octoroon or quadroon, makes no difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

(caption) Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon Slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference