William Gilmore Simms

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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William Gilmore Simms 1806-70, American novelist, b. Charleston, S.C. He wrote prolifically, both prose and poetry, but it is for his historical romances about his own state that he is remembered and often compared with James Fenimore Cooper . His tales of the Southern frontier include Guy Rivers (1834) and Beauchampe (1842; one part rewritten as Charlemont, 1856); those of colonial times are The Yemassee (1835) and The Cassique of Kiawah (1859); romances of Revolutionary times include a series— The Partisan (1835), Mellichampe (1836), and Katharine Walton ...

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