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Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky Tragedy. A Tale of Passion.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1842 Early in the
morning of 7 November 1825, in the town of Frankfort, KY, a young lawyer named
Jereboam O. Beauchamp crept to the house of the state attorney general, Solomon
P. Sharp, and stabbed him to death. The
murder was orchestrated to avenge the honor of Anna Cook[1],
Beauchamp’s wife, who as a single woman had been seduced, impregnated, and
abandoned by Sharp[2]. The event was a national sensation
immediately following its discovery and Beauchamp’s capture days later. Following Cook and Beauchamp’s failed joint
suicide attempt and the latter’s subsequent execution, ... |
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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of Dorchester. An Historical Romance of the Revolution in Carolina.Novel (Romance) | A. Hart | 1851 Set in September of 1780, Katharine Walton is
the third installment of a trilogy that follows The Partisan and Mellichampein
covering the Revolution in South Carolina.[1] While The Partisan and Mellichampe are
set in the interior of the Santee and Wateree rivers, Katharine Walton takes
the reader to the city of Charleston in 1780-81 to trace the social world of
South Carolina under British occupation.[2] The city functions narratively as a
“unifying center,” according to John C. Guilds, to free Katharine
Walton of the “awkward shifts in action and setting ... |
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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1836 The second of eight novels in the Revolutionary War series,
William Gilmore Simms’s Mellichampe was originally published
by Harper in 1836, then revised and republished in the Redfield edition in
1854. The story follows the fictional band of Francis Marion’s partisans
in the fall of 1780 after the Battle of Camden, as they engage in guerrilla
warfare on the Santee River against loyalist and British forces. In his
advertisement to the first edition, Simms considered Mellichampe a
“Historical romance” that accurately conveyed the career of Marion[1] to the “very ... |
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The Damsel of DarienNovel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1839 The Damsel of Darien was published in
two volumes in 1839. Simms first mentioned
the story to James Lawson in a 2 September 1838 letter, revealing that he
“wrote during the first part of the summer some 150 pages of a new novel &
there it sticks.”[1] Simms informed Lawson in January of 1839 that
Damsel would be published with Lea
& Blanchard of Philadelphia, who would pay $1000 for a first edition of
3,000 copies; in the meantime, Simms was busy revising the “numerous errors of
history & geography” committed while composing the first volume of the story.[2] ... |
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The Kinsmen; or, the Black Riders of Congaree. A Tale.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1841 William Gilmore Simms’s third novel of the Revolutionary
War (though fifth in order of plot chronology) was originally published in 1841
under the title The Kinsmen. It became an early offering as part of the
Redfield edition under its more popularly-known title The Scout in 1854. A novel
of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of
patriotism across classes, The Scout
opens shortly after the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (aka the Second Battle of
Camden)[1] in May 1781. The action ends with the British departure
from the Star Fort at Ninety ... |
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The Partisan: A Tale of the RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution (1835) was the first composed of Simms’s
series of romances about the Revolutionary War, though the second in the
series’ overall chronology. The Partisan was also the
first of a “trilogy” of closely-related novels within Simms’s overall
Revolutionary War saga, sharing characters and other links with Mellichampe (1836)
and Katherine Walton (1851).[1] The
novel deals with the 1780 Battle of Camden and its aftermath, especially the
guerilla warfare tactics employed by “The Swamp Fox,” General Francis Marion,
and other ... |
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The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |
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The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina.Novel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835 The Yemassee is historically the best known of
the long fictions of William Gilmore Simms.
Set on the South Carolina frontier, Simms’s third book-length fiction
treats the Yemassee War of 1715-17, when the Yemassee Indians, with their
Spanish and Native American allies, attacked the low country colonial
settlements. Writing in the midst of the
removal of natives from east of the Mississippi to the newly created Indian
Territory in the future Oklahoma, Simms emphasized such motives for the war as
the colonists’ need for land, the conflict between rival European powers ... |