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Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts.Poetry | J. & J. Harper | 1832
William
Gilmore Simms published Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts in the
fall of 1832. While Simms’s name does
not appear anywhere on or in the text, it is unlikely that he sought any type
of anonymity in its publication. Within
weeks of its appearing in print a reviewer in the Charleston Courier announced, “It is attributed to the pen of our
fellow-townsman, William Gilmore Simms, Esq.…”[1] Even without such prompting anyone familiar
with Simms’s work would have quickly recognized his authorship, because the
opening sonnet was one that he had previously ... |
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Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky TragedyNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 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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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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Charlemont; or, The Pride of the VillageNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 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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Early LaysPoetry | A.E. Miller | 1827
The
year 1827 was an eventful one for William Gilmore Simms. He completed reading law in the office of boyhood friend Charles Rivers Carroll and was appointed as a magistrate for Charleston; his
first child, Anna Augusta Singleton, was born, and he published two volumes of
collected poetry.[1] Early
Lays was the second
of those volumes and it was published by A.E. Miller of Charleston in the fall
of 1827.[2] In his dedication Simms noted, however, that
the material in Early
Lays was
“principally compiled from a surplus quantity of matter left from the
publication ... |
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EutawNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856
Eutaw,
published by Redfield on 19 April 1856, is the sequel to The Forayers,
and the penultimate romance in Simms's Revolutionary War saga[1]. It completes the story of the British withdrawal
from their outpost at Ninety-Six, including the battle of Eutaw Springs, the
last major engagement of the Carolina theatre, and its aftermath. Simms’s biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
that it is necessary to understand Eutaw as a sequel, as it was “not a
new venture but the extension and completion of a scheme which kept expanding
in the author's fertile imagination.”[2] ... |
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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of DorchesterNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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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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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Lyrical and Other PoemsPoetry | Ellis & Neufville | 1827
The
Charleston firm of Ellis & Neufville issued Lyrical
and Other Poems, which was Simms’s first published collection of poetry,
in January or early February of 1827. An
early date is most likely, because the copyright notice reprinted at the front
of the text indicates that Ellis & Neufville filed the necessary paperwork
on December 13, 1826, and a review of the volume appeared in the New York Literary Gazette
and American Athenæum on February 3, 1827. The collection was generally well-received by
critics and in later years Simms would recall fondly the praise ... |
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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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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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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Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth PinckneyPoetry | 1825
In 1825, a nineteen-year-old Simms published his first major work, Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, and thus took his initial step toward establishing
himself as one of the leading literary voices in Charleston. His work at this time, and especially in this
long poem, pointed to intellectual concerns that would follow him throughout
his literary career. Monody was published during one of
Simms’s first periods of sustained literary labor, his acting as editor of the Album: A Weekly Miscellany, a magazine
first published on 2 July 1825, and then every Saturday for the rest ... |
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The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens, in the Years 1777-8, Now First Printed from Original Letters Addressed to His Father, Henry Laurens, President of Congress, with a MemoirDocuments | The Bradford Club | 1867 The Army Correspondence of
Colonel John Laurens was published in an 1867 limited edition printing by
the Bradford Club of New York.[1] This collection displays Simms’s efforts of
documentary editing in the vein of a similar project he published the prior
year, Selections from the Letters and
Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond (1866). The
Army Correspondence consists of letters John Laurens wrote to his father,
Henry, between the years of 1777 and 1778 during his service with the Continental
Army in the Revolutionary War. The
volume also features an introductory ... |
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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 Forayers; or, The Raid of the Dog-DaysNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855
Simms
biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes that, in 1855, Simms would "enter a
four-year period marked not by the exuberance and the surging creative force of
the young Simms, but rather by an artistic imagination tempered and refined by
maturity and experience."[1]
The first major product of this new period was The Forayers, another in
Simms's series of revolutionary romances, published by Redfield in 1855. The Forayers is concerned with the
British army's retreat from its outpost at Ninety-Six, and explores the events
leading up the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781; ... |
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The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a RepublicHistory | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicHistory | Redfield | 1860 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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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 Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia.Biography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1847 The Life of Captain John Smith was
published by George F. Cooledge & Brother in March 1847 as part of The Illustrated Library series intended
for school libraries and general reading.[1] Simms’s letters indicate that he began the
biography as early as November 1844 when he wrote to George Frederick Holmes:
“I have half contracted to prepare a Life of Sumter, one of Paul Jones, and a
third of John Smith, with a new edition of his history of Virginia.”[2] By the middle of the month Simms informed
James Lawson he had already “written a chapter.” The process of getting ... |
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The Life of the Chevalier BayardBiography | Harper & Brothers | 1847 For Simms, it
was in a time “when chivalry was at its lowest condition in Christian Europe,” that
the Chevalier Bayard provided the world, “the happiest illustration, in a
single great example, of its ancient pride and character,” and “the most
admirable model to the generous ambition of the young that we find in all the
pages of history.”[1] Simms wrote The Life of Chevalier Bayard, a biography of the late-medieval
French knight, to serve as an archetype of virtue for Americans. In 1845, Simms had written two articles on
Bayard for Southern and Western[2],
and ... |
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The Lily and the Totem, or, The Huguenots in FloridaNovel (Romance) | Baker and Scribner | 1850 While it largely fell out of the
public consciousness after the author’s death, Simms’s The Lily and the Totem is one of his most intriguing works, both
because of its overall quality and its experimentation with the possibilities
of mixing history and fiction. While The Lily and the Totem is a story of
French Huguenots in sixteenth-century Florida, it is not, importantly, a
historical romance. Rather, Simms here
experimented with a new way in which to relate history—by telling history
through fictionalized narratives that fill in the gaps between what we do and
do ... |
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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 Partisan: A Romance of the RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854
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 Scout; or, the Black Riders of Congaree.Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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 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 ... |