←Author Index: Tu Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
(1784–1851)

An American author, Mississippi Territory circuit court judge, legal scholar, and political essayist.
Frequently went by, attributed as and cited with his middle name simply as Beverley Tucker or by his pen name, Edward William Sydney.
Second son of St. George Tucker (1752 – 1827) after his older brother, Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. (1780 – 1848).

Works

Fiction

  • George Balcombe (1836).
  • The Partisan Leader; A Tale of the Future, by [pen-name] Edward William Sydney (2 vols., New York, 1836; Washington, 1837).
    • The Partisan Leader: A Key to the Southern Conspiracy, by [pen-name] Edward William Sydney (2 vols., New York, 1861).
    • The Partisan Leader: A Novel, and an Apocalypse of the Origin and Struggles of the Southern Confederacy, by [nick-name] Beverley Tucker (Richmond, 1862).
  • Gertrude; A Novel, serialized in The Southern Literary Messenger (1844-1845).

Essays

  • Discourse on the Importance of the Study of Political Science as a Branch of Academic Education in the United States (Richmond, 1840)
  • Discourse on the Dangers that threaten the Free Institutions of the United States (1841)
  • Lectures intended to Prepare the Student for the Study of the Constitution of the United States (Philadelphia, 1845)
  • Principles of Pleading (Boston, 1846).


Works about Tucker

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