D. Worthington

D. Worthington is generally identified in library and book records as Dennison Worthington, the author of The Broken Sword; Or, A Pictorial Page in Reconstruction, published in 1901. The book is the main reliable trace of the author available in the sources found here, and it has been preserved through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain catalogs.

The Broken Sword looks back on the American South after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. Its tone is memoir-like and strongly opinionated, blending personal reflection with a partisan view of the era, which makes it both a literary work and a historical artifact of its time.

Little biographical information about Worthington could be confirmed from the sources retrieved in this search beyond the name attached to the book. Because of that, it is safest to remember the author through the work itself: a rare surviving voice from the turn of the twentieth century writing about the long shadow of Reconstruction.