Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord

American writer, political essayist

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1810

Place of Birth: Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1879

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (December 3, 1810 - November 23, 1879), was an American author from South Carolina, best known as a political essayist.
McCord, the daughter of Langdon Cheves, was born in 1810, in South Carolina.
She was educated in Philadelphia.
In 1840, she married David James McCord, becoming a widow in 1855.
She mainly resided in Columbia, South Carolina.She was active as an author from the 1840s onward, and her production is regarded as an important contribution of Southern Antebellum literature.
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.
1848; Caius Gracchus.
A five-act tragedy, published in New York, 1851.
McCord was a contributor to the "Southern Quarterly Review," and the "Southern Literary Messenger," for a number of years from 1849.
Her poetry was simple and clearly uttered.
Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Gilmore Simms, William Henry Trescot, Requier and James Matthews Legaré were her contemporaries; some of these were among her personal friends.