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- Genre: Novel (Romance) (x)
- Publication date: 1850s (x)
- Subject heading: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction (x)
- Time period: Revolutionary History (x)
- Engraver: Whitney, Jocelyn, & Annin, SC (x)
- Setting: Charleston, SC (x)
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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