NMLP P-034712 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Charles W. Chesnutt · Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston and New York) · 1899

The collection gathers nine short stories, including the title story (first serialized in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1898) and 'The Sheriff's Children' (first published in The Independent, November 7, 1889), brought together in book form for the first time under this title

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034712 for "The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line" by Charles W. Chesnutt (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034712, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).