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The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia.Biography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1847 The Life of Captain John Smith was
published by George F. Cooledge & Brother in March 1847 as part of The Illustrated Library series intended
for school libraries and general reading.[1] Simms’s letters indicate that he began the
biography as early as November 1844 when he wrote to George Frederick Holmes:
“I have half contracted to prepare a Life of Sumter, one of Paul Jones, and a
third of John Smith, with a new edition of his history of Virginia.”[2] By the middle of the month Simms informed
James Lawson he had already “written a chapter.” The process of getting ... |
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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 ... |
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The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the Army of the RevolutionBiography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1849 Simms was interested in the American
Revolution throughout his career, writing significant works about the conflict in
both fiction and nonfiction. By 1840, he
had already produced the first edition of his History of South Carolina as well as two of his Revolutionary
Romances, all of which are works largely concerned with the effect of the
Revolution on his native state. Around
this same time, Simms had decided to complement this work by writing biographies. In April 1840, he wrote to James Lawson that
he was “meditating and taking notes for several Biographies—say ... |
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The Life of the Chevalier BayardBiography | Harper & Brothers | 1847 For Simms, it
was in a time “when chivalry was at its lowest condition in Christian Europe,” that
the Chevalier Bayard provided the world, “the happiest illustration, in a
single great example, of its ancient pride and character,” and “the most
admirable model to the generous ambition of the young that we find in all the
pages of history.”[1] Simms wrote The Life of Chevalier Bayard, a biography of the late-medieval
French knight, to serve as an archetype of virtue for Americans. In 1845, Simms had written two articles on
Bayard for Southern and Western[2],
and ... |