William Gilmore Simms
William Gilmore Simms was a poet, novelist, politician and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He is also remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in response to which he wrote reviews and the pro-slavery novel The Sword and the Distaff (1854). During his literary career he served as editor of several journals and newspapers and he also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
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Woodcraft
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1974
The forayers, or, The raid of the dog-days
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1888
The Yemassee
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1882
Guy Rivers
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1882
Eutaw: a sequel to The forayers
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1864
Katharine Walton
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1864
The cassique of Kiawah
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1859
The wigwam and the cabin
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1856
Beauchampe
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1856
Charlemont
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1856
Eutaw, a sequel to The forayers, or, The raid of the dog-days
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1856
Vasconselos
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1856
Richard Hurdis
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1855
The forayers
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1855
Sword and the distaff
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1854
The partisan
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1854
Kinsmen
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1854
The golden Christmas
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1852
Katharine Walton, or, The rebel of Dorchester
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1851
The lily and the totem
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1850
The wigwam and the cabin
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1845
The life of Francis Marion
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1844
Border beagles
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1840
Pelayo
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1838
Mellichampe
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1836
The Yemassee
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1835
The partisan
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1835
Guy Rivers
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1834
Martin Faber
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1833
The life of General Francis Marion, a celebrated partisan officer, in the revolutionary war, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
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1814