A Compendium of Births,
Deaths, Publications, Awards, and Other Events in Mississippi’s
Literary History
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1850
Publications:
The Creole: Or, Siege of New Orleans: A Historical Romance: Founded on the Events of 1814-15, a novel by Joseph Beckham Cobb (A. Hart)
Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor," by Henry Clay Lewis under the pseudonym "Madison Tensas" (A. Hart)
August 5:Henry Clay Lewis dies by drowning in a swamp in northeast Louisiana.
1851
Publications:
Mississippi Scenes: Or, Sketches of Southern and Western Life and Adventure,
Humorous, Satirical, and Descriptive, Including the Legend of Black Creek,
stories and sketches by Joseph
Beckham Cobb (A. Hart).
The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph Glover Baldwin (D. Appleton and Co.)
June 3: Poet Irwin Russell
was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
1854
1855
Publications:
Party Leaders: Sketches of Thomas Jefferson, Alex'r Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Randolph, of Roanoke: Including Notices of Many Other Distinguished American Statesmen, by Joseph Glover Baldwin (D. Appleton and Co.)
1856
1857
1858
Publications:
Leisure Labors: Or, Miscellanies, Historical, Literary, and Political, essays by Joseph Beckham Cobb (A. Hart)