William Simms biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of William Simms

Author Name:

William Simms

Born As:

William Gilmore Simms

Other Names:

Born:

17 Apr 1806

Died:

11 Jun 1870




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Writer, Historian and Poet                          
Selected Works:

Lyrical and Other Poems - 1827
Tile Vision of Cones, Cain, and Other Poems - 1829
The Tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris - 1830
Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea - 1832.
Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal - 1833
The Yemassee - 1835
The Partisan - 1835
Mellichampe - 1836
Richard Hurdis; or, the Avenger of Blood. A Tale of Alabama - 1838
Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi - 1840
The Kinsmen - 1841
History of South Carolina - 1842
The Lily and the Totem, or, The Huguenots in Florida - 1850
Katherine Walton - 1851
The Tennessean's Story - 1852
Vasconselos - 1853
Woodcraft - 1854
The Forayers - 1855
Eutaw - 1856
The Cassique of Kiawah - 1859
Joscelyn - 1867.                          
Wife Anne Malcolm Giles                          
                          
Remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, in response to which he wrote reviews and a novel called The Sword and the Distaff.