Refined by:
- Publication date: 1830s (x)
- Subject heading: Alabama -- Fiction. (x)
- Time period: Era of the Early Republic (x)
- Places of publication: Philadelphia, PA (x)
- Genre
- Novel (Romance) (1)
- Character
- Ben Pickett (1)
- Betsy Pickett (1)
- Bully George (1)
- Clement Foster (1)
- Colonel John Grafton (1)
- John Hurdis (1)
- Mary Easterby (1)
- Matthew Webber (1)
- Richard Hurdis (1)
- William Carrington (1)
- Creator
- Dedicatee
- Printer
- Publisher
- Carey and Hart (1)
- Subject
- John A. Murrell (1)
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 ... |
|