Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(1784-1851)

B. in Virginia, became a Prof., of Law in William and Mary Coll. He wrote a novel, The Partisan Leader (1836), a prophecy of the future disunion which led to the Civil War. It was re-pub. in 1861 as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy. Another novel was George Balcombe.

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