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William Gilmore Simms refused to act like an old man. In his last full year of life, he continued working, contributing articles and poem...

William Gilmore Simms dated his preface to the anthology War Poetry of the South as September 8, 1866. Written in Brooklyn, the introduc...

William Gilmore Simms was three months shy of his second birthday when his mother, Harriet Singleton Simms , died in childbirth on Januar...

William Gilmore Simms 's ghost story " Grayling; or, Murder Will Out " was first published in The Gift for 1842. It was imm...

After the death of his first child, and his wife's pregnancy with his third child resulted in the death both of the child and its moth...

William Gilmore Simms knew he would die in 1870. "I am rapidly passing from a stage where you young men are to succeed me, doing wha...

"Steal not this book, my worthy friend, For fear the gallows be your end!" Thus reads an inscription on a book given to Gust...

Photo by Randy Garsee , used with permission The Charleston Academy of Music hosted an evening of "Dramatic Entertainment" on ...

In a letter dated January 14, 1859, Paul Hamilton Hayne wrote to his unofficial mentor William Gilmore Simms that the older writer'...

Few writers define the American South as well as William Gilmore Simms (primarily remembered as a novelist ) and Paul Hamilton Hayne (call...

The 1840s were a terrible time for American writers, who struggled to protect their works without international copyright. Several writers...

After serializing it in 40 parts for the National Era , Harriet Beecher Stowe agreed to turn her story into a book. Uncle Tom's Cabi...