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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 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 ... |