William Gilmore Simms

Donna Florida: a Tale. William Gilmore Simms

Publisher Marketing: Title: Donna Florida: a tale. Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00783700CollectionID: CTRG10256791-BPublicationDate: 18430101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Poem. Collation: 97 p.; 16 cm Contributor Bio:  Simms, William Gilmore William Gilmore Simms was born on April 12, 1806 in Charleston, South Carolina of Scotch-Irish descent. In his teen years, he worked as a drug store clerk, but began to study law at the age of eighteen. The Charleston bar admitted him to practice in 1827, but he soon abandoned that profession in order to devote himself to a writing career. In 1828, he became the editor and part-owner of the City Gazette, where he remained until 1832. He also began to publish a series of popular novels which focused on pre-colonial and colonial Southern history, including The Yemassee (1835), The Huguenots in Florida (1850), and The Cassique of Kiawah (1859). His non-fiction History of South Carolina (1842) was the standard history text-book in the State for several generations. Simms published a pro-secession paper during the Civil War until his press was destroyed when the Union forces invaded Charleston. He died on June 11, 1870.