Louisa S. McCord | |
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 From the Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855) | |
| Born | Louisa Susannah Cheves December 3, 1810 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 23, 1879 (aged 68) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Resting place | Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston |
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| Period | 1840s–post American Civil War |
| Genre | Political essays |
| Subject | Free Trade |
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David James McCord (m. 1840) |
| Relatives | Langdon Cheves (father) |
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Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (December 3, 1810 – November 23, 1879) was an American plantation owner and author from South Carolina, best known as a political essayist who wrote on Free Trade. Between 1848 and 1856, she authored some thirteen essays and a play, Caius Gracchus, appeared in print, in which McCord articulated a defense of slavery as well as a conservative view of women's place in society.[1]
The daughter of Langdon Cheves, she was born in 1810 in South Carolina and educated in Philadelphia. In 1840, she married David James McCord, becoming a widow in 1855. She mainly resided in Columbia, South Carolina.[2]
McCord was active as an author from the 1840s onward, and her production is regarded as an important contribution to Southern literature of the Antebellum era. McCord's writings consisted principally of essays and reviews, and she wrote well on the subject of political economy. Her published volumes included, My Dreams, a volume of poems published in Philadelphia in 1848; Sophisms of the Protective Policy. A translation from the French of Bastiat, published in New York in 1848; and Caius Gracchus. A five-act tragedy, published in New York in 1851. McCord was a contributor to the Southern Quarterly Review and the Southern Literary Messenger beginning in 1849.[2] Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Gilmore Simms, William Henry Trescot, Requier and James Matthews Legaré were her contemporaries; some were personal friends.[3]
- ^ Biography, womenhistoryblog.com. Accessed February 7, 2024.
- ^ a b Tardy 1872, p. 518.
- ^ Fraser 1920, p. 1-.