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Nathaniel
Beverley Tucker Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, the second son of St. George Tucker, like so many members of his family, was a lawyer and literary man. Beverley Tucker was born at Matoax, Virginia, on September 6, 1784 and was educated at Williamsburgh, where his father had taken up residence. Tucker graduated from William and Mary in 1801 and then studied of law. He was married in 1809 and moved to Charlotte County. He moved to Missouri in 1815, became a resident of the state, and was appointed as judge. Fifteen years later he returned to Virginia. On July 4, 1834, he was elected to serve as professor of law at William and Mary College, a position he held until his death in the summer of 1851. [Source: Evert A. & George L. Duyckinck, 1 The Cyclopaedia of American Literature 694 (Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co., 1880)(2 vols. )] Tucker wrote political novels and engaged in various other forms of writing. His first novel, George Balcombe, to which he did not append his name, received favorable reviews, including one from Edgar Allen Poe. Poe provides the following commentary on Tucker's writing:
Tucker corresponded with the young Poe when he was editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and another Southern man of letters, William Gilmore Simms, a fellow lawyer and poet. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker The Life and Literature of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker Judge Beverley Tucker's Fiction Letter—Nathaniel Beverley Tucker to Richard Cocke, January 10, 1861 Letter—
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker to Edgar Allan Poe - December 5, 1835 History—William & Mary School of Law Antebellum Era Bibliography John L. Hare, Images of the Family in the Ante-Bellum Virginia Novel, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, April 1997 Denise Ann Riley, "The Masters of the Blue Room: An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Environment and the Ideology of the Faculty of the College of William and Mary, 1936-1846, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1997 Adam L. Tate, Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society (University of Missouri Press, ____) Susan J. Tracy, In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature ( Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995) [review] Poetry "To a Coquette" and "To the Same" Lines Enigma de J. J. Rousseau To Miss L. H. W. La Feuille Desechée Translations Iphigenia at Tauris: A Dramatic Poem, Act I Lectures, Addresses, Writings Lecture
to Law Students A Note to Blackstone's Commentaries Extract from Reminiscences of a Western Traveller Christian Education Charlot Tayon To - Translation A Lecture on Government Lecture Temperance An Essay on the Moral and Political Effect of the Relation between the Caucasian Master and the African Slave, Part I "Gertrude: A Novel " Munford's Homer: A Review Judge Tucker's Address MSS. of John Randolph, Letter IV [For Future Reference: The primary source for these online text resources for Nathaniel Beverley Tucker is the Making of America etext collection at the University of Michigan] Writings Beverly Tucker, George Balcombe. A Novel (New York: Harper, 1836)(2 vols.) ____________, A Series of Lectures on the Science of Government; Intended to Prepare the Student for the Study of the Constitution of the United States (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845) ____________, The Principles of Pleading (Boston: Little, Brown, 1846) ____________, The Partisan Leader; A Tale of the Future (Printed for the publishers, by J. Caxton, 1856) [i.e. Washington, Printed for D. Green, 1836)(pseud. Edward William Sidney)(2 vols.)(New York: A. A. Knopf, 1933; Carl Bridenbaugh ed.) [online text] Research Resources Tucker-Coleman Papers Correspondence of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1837-1888 |
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