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Cooke, John (Esten)

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Cooke, John (Esten) (1830-1886)

US writer. He wrote historical romances set in old Virginia, such as The Virginia Comedians (1854). He also wrote war novels and biographies of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson (1863) and R E Lee (1871).

He was born in Winchester, Virginia. In the US Civil War he served with the Confederate army. Returning to Virginia after the war, he wrote idealized novels of the antebellum South and a distinguished colonial state history in 1883.



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