Louisa S. McCord
Subtitle: poems, drama, biography, letters
By: edited by Richard C. Lounsbury.
Contributors: Lounsbury, Richard Cecil.
Series: The Publications of the Southern Texts Society
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: McCord, Louisa Susanna Cheves, 1810-1879 -- Correspondence.; Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius, 154-121 B.C. -- Drama.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.; Women -- Southern States -- Correspondence.; Women -- Southern States -- Poetry.; Rome -- History -- Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C. -- Drama.
Description: 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 indispensable 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: Political and Social Essays, makes available all of Louisa McCord's varied writings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index.