Martin Faber, the story of a criminal: and other tales pp.5
William Gilmore Simms
Harper & Brothers
1837
Book
English
The University of Nashville Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections
As popular as his contemporary and friend Edgar Allen Poe, Simms was a prolific writer and Martin Faber was one of his popular novels. Simms chose to dedicate the work to his then-ten-year-old daughter, Anna August Singleton, an odd dedication for a story about the brutal murder of a woman.