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William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) 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. [1]
Jun 7, 2024 · William Gilmore Simms (born April 17, 1806, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 11, 1870, Charleston) was an outstanding Southern novelist. Motherless at two, Simms was reared by his grandmother while his father fought in the Creek wars and under Jackson at New Orleans in 1814.
William Gilmore Simms: An Overview. By David Moltke-Hansen, Director of the Simms Initiatives. Jump to: Background | Personal Life | Career | Associations | Thought | Writings | Posthumous Career. Introduction.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and remaining near his birthplace throughout his life, Simms was well-known as the author of romances such as The Yemassee (1835), The Lily and the Totem (1850), and The Forayers (1855).
Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) Writer. Simms was born in Charleston, S.C., and lived much of his life in or near it, making frequent visits to northern publishing centers and to the Gulf Coast and the southern mountains.
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Mar 27, 2023 · William Gilmore Simms Although not an Alabamian himself, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the leading author of the antebellum South, chose the state as the setting for two novels and one short story. In all, Simms wrote more than a dozen novels, three books of poetry, and a history of South Carolina.
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May 21, 2018 · American author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the dominant literary personality of the antebellum South, is chiefly remembered for his novels on subjects derived from American history. William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, S.C.
Aug 1, 2016 · Poet, historian, novelist, editor. Simms was born on April 17, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of the Irish immigrant William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Ann Singleton. His mother died when Simms was an infant.
William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with h...
This paper is an attempt to determine a few of the many reasons why Southern letters, which in the 1830s had been challengingly alive, could in the 1850s add nothing to the "American Renaissance," by examining what William Gilmore Simms, the antebellum South's most prolific and most representative writer, was doing between 1850 and 1855.
