Research Catalog

Title

Doctor Huguet : a novel / by Edmund Boisgilbert (Ignatius Donnelly).

Author

Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901

Publication

• Chicago : F.J. Schulte & Company, publishers, 298 Dearborn Street, [1891]
• ©1891.

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Details

Additional Authors

F. J. Schulte & Company, publisher.

Description

309, [11] pages; 20 cm.

Summary

Doctor Alfred Huguet, an affluent white Southerner, wakes up one morning to find that he has been changed into Sam Johnsing, an African American man of giant stature who has been accused of stealing chickens. To prove he isn't Johnsing, Huguet starts up a school for African Americans. The story is set in South Carolina.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• White privilege > Fiction
• Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction
• Southern States > Race relations > Fiction
• Body swapping > Fiction
• South Carolina > Fiction
• African Americans > Fiction

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• In printed paper wrappers, with a portrait of the author on recto of upper wrapper.
• With a half-title.
• Publisher's advertisements on verso of half-title page, and pages [2]-[11] at end.
• "Copyright, 1891, by Ignatius Donnelly. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. Myself -- ch. 2. Mary Ruddiman -- ch. 3. "Sejanus" -- ch. 4. Growing together -- ch. 5. Ambition -- ch. 6. Lawyer Buryhill -- ch. 7. Abigail -- ch. 8. The debate -- ch. 9. The temptation -- ch. 10. The vision -- ch. 11. -- The transformation -- ch. 12. Out of doors -- ch. 13. The arrest -- ch. 14. Discharged -- ch. 15. At home -- ch. 16. An interview -- ch. 17. The lady of my love -- ch. 18. Hunted to the death -- ch. 19. In the court-room again -- ch. 20. In jail -- ch. 21. My faithful friend -- ch. 22. A visit -- ch. 23. "Mother Bindell's" -- ch. 24. She sees him -- ch. 25. Free again -- ch. 26. The scene shifts -- ch. 27. I find my mission -- ch. 28. Doing my work -- ch. 29. Preaching and teaching -- ch. 30. The clouds gathering -- ch. 31. Detective work -- ch. 32. Charity Jones -- ch. 33. My letter to the colonel -- ch. 34. The colonel's hour of triumph -- ch. 35. Abigail has a proposal -- ch. 36. My midnight visitors -- ch. 37. I hear bad news -- ch. 38. The plot thickens -- ch. 39. Flame and death -- ch. 40. Born again -- ch. 41. Vengeance -- ch. 42. My great sorrow -- ch. 43. The end.

Call Number

Sc Fic (Donnelly, I. Doctor Huguet)

LCCN

06033726

OCLC

• 413049
• NYPGR413049-B

Author

Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901, author.

Title

Doctor Huguet : a novel / by Edmund Boisgilbert (Ignatius Donnelly).

Publisher

Chicago : F.J. Schulte & Company, publishers, 298 Dearborn Street, [1891]

Copyright Date

©1891.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Fic-D (accession no. B628586) with the ink stamp "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

F. J. Schulte & Company, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Fic (Donnelly, I. Doctor Huguet)