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Charleston: The Palmetto City. An EssayTravel Writings | Harper & Brothers; Southern Studies Program, University of South Carolina | 1857, 1976 Charleston: The Palmetto City is a 1976 pamphlet republication of
an essay of the same name, originally published anonymously by Simms in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in June
1857.[1] The pamphlet edition of this essay is a
facsimile of the original Harper’s
piece. In the essay, a rare example of
the author’s travel writing, Simms focused on the architecture and geography of
his native city, descriptions that are complimented by detailed illustrations
of many of the most significant of Charleston’s buildings and memorials.[2] While a minor work, the essay ... |
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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic StoryNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Building
out of his early experiences with writing in the psychological gothic mode in
such texts as Martin Faber (1833) and
Carl Werner (1838) and anticipating
his later work Castle Dismal (1844), William
Gilmore Simms published Confesssion; or, The Blind Heart in 1841. Coming at the front of what many consider to
be the author’s most productive period, this novel is the extended confession
of Edward Clifford who is orphaned at a young age and sent to be reared by his
aunt and uncle in Charleston. Rising
above his foster parents’ scorn, Clifford becomes a lawyer, a prominent
citizen, ... |
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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1841 Building
out of his early experiences with writing in the psychological gothic mode in
such texts as Martin Faber (1833) and
Carl Werner (1838) and anticipating
his later work Castle Dismal (1844), William
Gilmore Simms published Confesssion; or, The Blind Heart in 1841. Coming at the front of what many consider to
be the author’s most productive period, this novel is the extended confession
of Edward Clifford who is orphaned at a young age and sent to be reared by his
aunt and uncle in Charleston. Rising
above his foster parents’ scorn, Clifford becomes a lawyer, a prominent
citizen, ... |
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Father Abbot, or, The Home Tourist; a MedleyJournalism | 1849
Father Abbot collects together a series
of related political fictions Simms wrote for the Charleston Mercury from September to November 1849.[1] Here, the author revealed his significant wit
and complex thinking about social, political, and philosophical issues through
the perambulations of the titular Father Abbot about Charleston and its
environs. As Father Abbot travels
around the city with various companions, its economic and political future are
discussed; this conceit allowed Simms to use his satirical gifts to create a
humorous, yet biting, commentary on the socioeconomic ... |
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Flirtation at the Moultrie HouseNovella | 1850 One of
Simms’s minor works, the epistolary novella, Flirtation at the Moultrie House, presents an interesting picture
of society life in mid-century Charleston.
Mary Ann Wimsatt notes that Flirtation,
published as a pamphlet in 1850 by Edward C. Councell of Charleston, shows
Simms’s “growing talent for brisk descriptions of city life,” while Simms
biographer John C. Guilds notes the satiric success of the work: “Not only is Flirtation of interest because it represents a type of fiction
almost wholly different from that characteristically associated with the
prolific ... |
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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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Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City, Etc. Etc. Etc.Novella | Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. | 1853 Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City is a collection of stories published in
1853 by Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. of Philadelphia. In addition to the title story, the
collection includes “The Maroon” and “Maize in Milk.” Each story was published serially prior to
the collection and gradually expanded from its serial version into novella form. In a 20 June 1853 to James Henry Hammond,
Simms mentioned “collecting my scattered novellettes & tales. You have probably seen ‘Marie de Berniere
&c.’ This will be followed up by other vols. of similar ... |
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Southward Ho! A Spell of SunshineNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854
William
Gilmore Simms assembled his 1854 Southward
Ho! A Spell of Sunshine largely out
of his various periodical fiction publications, many from the late 1840s. Often categorized as one of the author's
novels, the work is organized as a collection of short stories unified by the
central narrative conceit of a group of storytelling passengers on a sea voyage
from New York to Charleston.[1] The travelers pass the time by sharing
stories of their homes or other familiar (usually southern) locales. Because of this organization, John C. Guilds
says the text exhibits ... |
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The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial RomanceNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1859 The Cassique of Kiawah, thought by many critics of
Simms’s own time and several modern scholars to be the author’s best work, is a
colonial romance about the early days of Charleston. Setting the book in
the 1680s, Simms robustly describes the competing claims of the English and
Spanish over Charleston and its environs, including the attendant violence and
actions of Spanish pirates and English privateers. In so doing, he
presents a vision of Charleston that was not genteel and sophisticated, but
rather raucous and frontier-like; Simms thus usedThe Cassique of Kiawah to
critique ... |
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The Charleston Book: A Miscellany in Prose and VerseMiscellany | The Reprint Company; Samuel Hart, Sen. | 1845, 1983 One of the major American cities
of the mid-19th century, Charleston was viewed by its citizens as a
hub of culture and erudition equal to that of the other great cities of the
time, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. To illustrate the quality of the city’s
intellectual life and literary merits, “Charleston book-seller and Reform
Jewish leader Samuel Hart, Sr. proposed that Charlestonians join the trend” of
putting together an anthology of writings by city residents, much as several
other cities had done throughout the late 1830s.[1] Simms, the leading ... |
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The Life of Francis MarionBiography | Henry G. Langley | 1844A significant aim throughout Simms’s work is to provide South Carolina,
and the South generally, with pride of place in the emergence of the American
nation, its people, and their national character. Simms does this work largely through his
narration of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, the focus of numerous
romances, histories, and other works.
One such work is The Life of
Francis Marion, a biography of the legendary “Swamp Fox.” Simms’s interest in Marion is pronounced, as
the famous general appears in several of the revolutionary romances; while
flawed at times, Simms’s ... |