Madame Delphine

Whether in those hands or these, the house had its habits and continued in them; and to this day the neighbors rightly explain its close-sealed, uninhabited look by the all-sufficient statement that the inmates 'is quadroons.'

Set in the mysterious French Quarter of New Orleans during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Madame Delphine is filled with Creole allure. It tells the story of an old quadroon woman, whose life and home have spiraled downward from their prior state of grand...