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| | UVa Library: Early American Fiction Collection |
 | | William Gilmore Simms, born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1806, was the popular and prolific author of romances such as The Yemassee, The Partisan, Guy Rivers, and The Lily and the Totem. |
 | | Although he was admitted to the South Carolina bar at the age of twenty-one, he decided to pursue his love of literature rather than the law. |
 | | Simms wrote a wide variety of works, including poetry, plays, histories of the South, novelettes, biographies, magazine essays, medleys, and literary criticism. |
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