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- Genre: Correspondence (x)
- Publication date: 1840s (x)
- Subject heading: Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 -- Correspondence (x)
- Time period: Antebellum Period (x)
- Editor: T.C. Duncan Eaves (x)
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- Columbia, SC (1)
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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 2Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 1953 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
foster ... |