A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Cooke, John Esten

by John William Cousin

Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886).—Novelist, b. in Virginia, illustrated the life and history of his native state in the novels, The Virginia Comedians (1854), and The Wearing of the Gray, a tale of the Civil War, and more formally in an excellent History of the State. His style was somewhat high-flown.