South Carolina's answer to Fenimore Cooper, William Gilmore Simms was highly regarded in his own day, and in the South for some time after that (witness the Southern school edition of The Yemassee from 1911); but he took the wrong side in the Civil War, and was a vigorous defender of slavery. Whether the modern eclipse of his reputation is a matter of regional politics or of changing tastes is a thing we can all judge for ourselves, now that Google Books is here to rescue him from oblivion.
American Men of Letters: William Gilmore Simms. By William P. Trent. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.
As Good As a Comedy: Or, the Tennesseean's Story. By an Editor. Philadelphia, 1852.
The Cassique of Kiawah. A colonial romance. By William Gilmore Simms, Esq. New York, 1859.
Another copy.
Another copy.
Marie de Berniere: a tale of the Crescent City, etc., etc., etc. By W. Gilmore Simms. Philadelphia, 1853. —Includes The Maroon and Maize in Milk.
Martin Faber; The Story of a Criminal. New-York, 1833.
The Prima Donna: A Passage from City Life. By W. G. Simms. Philadelphia, 1844.
Richard Hurdis; or, the Avenger of Blood. A tale of Alabama. In two volumes. Second edition. Philadelphia, 1838.
Volume I.
Volume II.
The Yemassee. A romance of Carolina. In two volumes. Second edition. New-York, 1835.
Volume I.
Volume II.
The Yemassee. A romance of Carolina. Edited, with introduction and notes, by M. Lyle Spencer, Ph.D., Professor of English, the Woman's College of Alabama. Richmond, 1911. —Part of the Johnson's Series of English Classics.