Died 1879 | ||
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Books Louisa S. McCord, My Dreams, Political and Social Essays | ||
Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (1810-1879), was a United States author from South Carolina.
She was born in Charleston to Langdon Cheves and given a largely conventional education for an upper class female in Southern Antebellum society. However, her father did also allow her to learn mathematics from her brother's teacher and study politics. In 1840 she married the lawyer David James McCord (d. 1855) and spent her married life managing her Lang Syne Plantation outside Fort Motte in South Carolina. She was the mother of captain Langdon Cheves McCord. After the death of her spouse, she settled in Columbia. During the American Civil War, she was president in the Soldiers Relief Association and active in the Ladies Clothing Association.
Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord was active as an author from the 1840s onward, and her production is regarded as an important contribution of Southern Antebellum literature. As a translator, her most known work was Frederic Bastiat's Sophisme Economique (1848). As a poet, she published My Dreams, and has a playwright, she wrote the Caius Cracchus. However, it was as a political essayist she was most known. She published numerous essays in Southern papers, normally within political issues. Her views were conservative Southern pro-slavery, idealizing Southern society.