Louisa S. McCord: Poems, Drama, Biography, Letters

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord

University of Virginia Press, 1996 - Authors, American - 487 pages

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sarah Grimke, John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, and Frederick Douglass.

This volume collects all of her poetry, drama, and correspondence, her account of Sherman's occupation of Columbia, and a memoir of her father, politician and statesman Langdon Cheves. Its publication, together with the previously published Louisa S. McCord: Poltical and Social Essays, makes available all of Louisa McCords's varied writings.

Contents

• Chronology I: 1
• Note on the Texts: 25
• My Dreams: 41
• Poems from the Southern Literary Gazette: 146
• Later Poems: 155
• Caius Gracchus: 161
• Review of Reminiscences of Public Men: 235
• The Burning of Columbia: 241
• Letters and Documents March 20 1836December 4 1860: 265
• Letters and Documents December 24 1860c June 1879: 361
• Afterword: 414
• Bibliography: 469
• Index: 475

About the author

Richard C. Lounsbury is Associate Profesor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Birghman Young University. He is author of The Arts of Suetonius: An Introduction and editor of Louisa S. McCord: Political and Social Essays.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Louisa S. McCord: Poems, Drama, Biography, Letters; Publications of the Southern Texts Society
• Author: Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
• Editor: Richard Cecil Lounsbury
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0813916534, 9780813916538
• Length: 487 pages