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Guy Rivers: A Tale of GeorgiaNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1834 Guy Rivers was published by Harper & Brothers in July 1834 as the
first of Simms’s many fictional frontier writings known as the Border Romance
series. According to the author, these works were “meant to illustrate the
border & domestic history of the South.”[1] Writing to James Lawson in December
1833, Simms described the novel as “a tale of Georgia—a tale of the miners—of a
frontier and wild people, and the events are precisely such as may occur among
a people & in a region of that character.”[2] Mary Ann Wimsatt notes that Guy
Rivers established ... |
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Guy Rivers: A Tale of GeorgiaNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855 Guy Rivers was published by Harper & Brothers in July 1834 as the
first of Simms’s many fictional frontier writings known as the Border Romance
series. According to the author, these works were “meant to illustrate the
border & domestic history of the South.”[1] Writing to James Lawson in December
1833, Simms described the novel as “a tale of Georgia—a tale of the miners—of a
frontier and wild people, and the events are precisely such as may occur among
a people & in a region of that character.”[2] Mary Ann Wimsatt notes that Guy
Rivers established ... |
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Richard Hurdis: A Tale of AlabamaNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855 Richard Hurdis, the second of Simms’s
Border Romances (following Guy Rivers
of 1834), presents an intriguing study of the author’s development, as its
publication history illustrated Simms’s notorious sensitivity to critical
reception. Hurdis came out during a worrisome time in Simms’s life, with his
second wife, Chevillette Eliza Roach Simms, severely ill while pregnant, and
the writer’s relationship with his publisher, the Harper Brothers of New York,
souring. John C. Guilds notes that
“alternating moods of depression and optimism—lifelong traits—soon became
dominant ... |
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Richard Hurdis; or, The Avenger of Blood. A Tale of Alabama.Novel (Romance) | Carey and Hart | 1838 Richard Hurdis, the second of Simms’s
Border Romances (following Guy Rivers
of 1834), presents an intriguing study of the author’s development, as its
publication history illustrated Simms’s notorious sensitivity to critical
reception. Hurdis came out during a worrisome time in Simms’s life, with his
second wife, Chevillette Eliza Roach Simms, severely ill while pregnant, and
the writer’s relationship with his publisher, the Harper Brothers of New York,
souring. John C. Guilds notes that
“alternating moods of depression and optimism—lifelong traits—soon became
dominant ... |
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The Wigwam and the CabinShort Stories | Redfield | 1856 Originally
published by Wiley and Putnam in two volumes—the first series in October 1845 and
the second in February 1846—for the Library of American Books series, The Wigwam and the Cabin is a collection
of border stories about the southwestern frontier. Simms best summarized the collection in a
dedicatory letter to his father-in-law for the 1856 Redfield edition: “One word
for the material of these legends. It is
local, sectional—and to be national
in literature, one must needs be sectional. No one mind can fully or fairly illustrate
the characteristics of any great ... |
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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 ... |
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The Yemassee: A Romance of CarolinaNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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 ... |