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As Good as a Comedy, or the Tennessean's StoryNovel (Romance) | A. Hart | 1852 As Good as a Comedy and Paddy McGann are two short novels that
reveal Simms’s talents as a comedic writer. While other works, like Border
Beagles, contain humorous sections or characters, these two works stand out
as sustained comedic successes. In these, Simms shows an understanding of
and skill at utilizing the tropes of frontier humor, popularized by the likes
of A.B. Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes, as well as a use of humor as
social commentary that foreshadowed the work of Twain. While each was
published previously, they were published together in one volume in 1972, ... |
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Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky TragedyNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Early in the
morning of 7 November 1825, in the town of Frankfort, KY, a young lawyer named
Jereboam O. Beauchamp crept to the house of the state attorney general, Solomon
P. Sharp, and stabbed him to death. The
murder was orchestrated to avenge the honor of Anna Cook[1],
Beauchamp’s wife, who as a single woman had been seduced, impregnated, and
abandoned by Sharp[2]. The event was a national sensation
immediately following its discovery and Beauchamp’s capture days later. Following Cook and Beauchamp’s failed joint
suicide attempt and the latter’s subsequent execution, ... |
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Border Beagles: A Tale of MississippiNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855 In The Major Fiction of William Gilmore Simms,
Mary Ann Wimsatt argues that Border Beagles, the sequel to the
scandalous Richard Hurdis, shows Simms as continuing to explore the
contentious relationship between the older, civilized tidewater south and the
wild trans-mountain frontier.[1]
While thus continuing a theme begun with Guy Rivers and Richard
Hurdis, Border Beagles saw Simms decidedly scaling back
the violence found in those two books, especially the latter. Here, the
author’s presentation of the chaos and dangers of the frontier is tempered by
humor, with ... |
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Charlemont; or, The Pride of the VillageNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Early in the
morning of 7 November 1825, in the town of Frankfort, KY, a young lawyer named
Jereboam O. Beauchamp crept to the house of the state attorney general, Solomon
P. Sharp, and stabbed him to death. The
murder was orchestrated to avenge the honor of Anna Cook[1],
Beauchamp’s wife, who as a single woman had been seduced, impregnated, and
abandoned by Sharp[2]. The event was a national sensation
immediately following its discovery and Beauchamp’s capture days later. Following Cook and Beauchamp’s failed joint
suicide attempt and the latter’s subsequent execution, ... |
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Charleston: The Palmetto City. An EssayTravel Writings | Harper & Brothers; Southern Studies Program, University of South Carolina | 1857, 1976 Charleston: The Palmetto City is a 1976 pamphlet republication of
an essay of the same name, originally published anonymously by Simms in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in June
1857.[1] The pamphlet edition of this essay is a
facsimile of the original Harper’s
piece. In the essay, a rare example of
the author’s travel writing, Simms focused on the architecture and geography of
his native city, descriptions that are complimented by detailed illustrations
of many of the most significant of Charleston’s buildings and memorials.[2] While a minor work, the essay ... |
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City of the SilentPoetry | Walker & James, Publishers | 1850 The City of the Silent is a poem of 500 lines written
by William Gilmore Simms in November 1850.
It was published by Walker & James in Charleston, SC that
same year. The cover lists a specific
date, November 19, which was the date that Simms delivered the poem at
the consecration of the new Magnolia Cemetery on the banks of the Cooper River, just north of Charleston. Although it was being
published in December of 1850, and despite the fact the cover notes the date of
publication as 1850, the work was released as a pamphlet in February of 1851.[1]
... |
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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic StoryNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Building
out of his early experiences with writing in the psychological gothic mode in
such texts as Martin Faber (1833) and
Carl Werner (1838) and anticipating
his later work Castle Dismal (1844), William
Gilmore Simms published Confesssion; or, The Blind Heart in 1841. Coming at the front of what many consider to
be the author’s most productive period, this novel is the extended confession
of Edward Clifford who is orphaned at a young age and sent to be reared by his
aunt and uncle in Charleston. Rising
above his foster parents’ scorn, Clifford becomes a lawyer, a prominent
citizen, ... |
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Egeria: or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for The Woods and WaysideMiscellany | E.H. Butler & Co. | 1853 Egeria: or, Voices of Thought and Counsel,
for The Woods and Wayside was published by E.H. Butler of Philadelphia in 1853
as a collection of Simms-authored laconics written over the course of many
years.[1] Simms began composing his proverbs as early
as April 1846 when he published selections of them in the Southern Patriot until April 1847 under the title, “Wayside
Laconics.” Soon afterward, Simms collected
these alongside many others and sought Rufus Griswold’s assistance in locating
a book publisher for the manuscript, which proved unsuccessful. Simms then ... |
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EutawNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856
Eutaw,
published by Redfield on 19 April 1856, is the sequel to The Forayers,
and the penultimate romance in Simms's Revolutionary War saga[1]. It completes the story of the British withdrawal
from their outpost at Ninety-Six, including the battle of Eutaw Springs, the
last major engagement of the Carolina theatre, and its aftermath. Simms’s biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
that it is necessary to understand Eutaw as a sequel, as it was “not a
new venture but the extension and completion of a scheme which kept expanding
in the author's fertile imagination.”[2] ... |
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Flirtation at the Moultrie HouseNovella | 1850 One of
Simms’s minor works, the epistolary novella, Flirtation at the Moultrie House, presents an interesting picture
of society life in mid-century Charleston.
Mary Ann Wimsatt notes that Flirtation,
published as a pamphlet in 1850 by Edward C. Councell of Charleston, shows
Simms’s “growing talent for brisk descriptions of city life,” while Simms
biographer John C. Guilds notes the satiric success of the work: “Not only is Flirtation of interest because it represents a type of fiction
almost wholly different from that characteristically associated with the
prolific ... |
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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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Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female CollegeSpeech | Spartanburg Female College Board of Trustees | 1855
William Gilmore Simms spoke at the opening of the
Spartanburg Female College at approximately 1pm[1]
on August 22, 1855 to an audience comprised largely of the Board of Trustees
and other persons involved in the founding of that institution[2]. His remarks were published several weeks
later in a pamphlet entitled Inauguration
of the Spartanburg Female College. His
talk focused on the two related topics of the value of education in general and
the importance of female education specifically. On the former, Simms compared the mind of man
to a wilderness terrain awaiting ... |
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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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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of Dorchester. An Historical Romance of the Revolution in Carolina.Novel (Romance) | A. Hart | 1851 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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Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City, Etc. Etc. Etc.Novella | Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. | 1853 Marie de Berniere: A Tale of the Crescent City is a collection of stories published in
1853 by Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. of Philadelphia. In addition to the title story, the
collection includes “The Maroon” and “Maize in Milk.” Each story was published serially prior to
the collection and gradually expanded from its serial version into novella form. In a 20 June 1853 to James Henry Hammond,
Simms mentioned “collecting my scattered novellettes & tales. You have probably seen ‘Marie de Berniere
&c.’ This will be followed up by other vols. of similar ... |
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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 The second of eight novels in the Revolutionary War series,
William Gilmore Simms’s Mellichampe was originally published
by Harper in 1836, then revised and republished in the Redfield edition in
1854. The story follows the fictional band of Francis Marion’s partisans
in the fall of 1780 after the Battle of Camden, as they engage in guerrilla
warfare on the Santee River against loyalist and British forces. In his
advertisement to the first edition, Simms considered Mellichampe a
“Historical romance” that accurately conveyed the career of Marion[1] to the “very ... |
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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1836 The second of eight novels in the Revolutionary War series,
William Gilmore Simms’s Mellichampe was originally published
by Harper in 1836, then revised and republished in the Redfield edition in
1854. The story follows the fictional band of Francis Marion’s partisans
in the fall of 1780 after the Battle of Camden, as they engage in guerrilla
warfare on the Santee River against loyalist and British forces. In his
advertisement to the first edition, Simms considered Mellichampe a
“Historical romance” that accurately conveyed the career of Marion[1] to the “very ... |
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Michael Bonham; or, The Fall of Bexar. A Tale of TexasDrama | John R. Thompson | 1852 “I
have also a very Texan drama unpublished in my desk,” Simms wrote to state
legislator, Armistead Burt, in January 1845, “which will make a rumpus, be
sure, if ever it reaches light upon the stage.”[1] That drama, Michael Bonham, was originally published pseudonymously (by “A
Southron”) in the Southern Literary
Messenger from February to June 1852.
Richmond publisher, John R. Thompson, released it as a small pamphlet
after its serial run in July 1852.[2] The drama is based on James Butler Bonham, a
South Carolina native and lieutenant in the Texas Calvary, who died ... |
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Norman Maurice; or, The Man of the People. An American Drama in Five Acts.Drama | John R. Thompson | 1851 Throughout his long career,
Simms was regularly concerned with theatre, though drama would always be the
genre with which he had the least commercial and critical success. Norman
Maurice; or,The Man of the the People is perhaps Simms’s best dramatic
work, though its failings are typical of his theatrical frustrations. Norman
Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common
language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank verse, Norman Maurice is a play in which the
Constitutional and slavery questions that ... |
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Norman Maurice; or, The Man of the People. An American Drama.Drama | Walker and Richards | 1852 Throughout his long career,
Simms was regularly concerned with theatre, though drama would always be the
genre with which he had the least commercial and critical success. Norman
Maurice; or,The Man of the the People is perhaps Simms’s best dramatic
work, though its failings are typical of his theatrical frustrations. Norman
Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common
language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank verse, Norman Maurice is a play in which the
Constitutional and slavery questions that ... |
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Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and ContemplativePoetry | Redfield | 1853 William Gilmore Simms’s ultimate ambition for his
collected poetical works titled Poems:
Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative was limited to
posterity. Unlike most of his literary
efforts, it was not a money-making operation.
He wrote his friend B.F. Perry in January 1852, “my hope &
expectation are not profit. I seek only to put myself fully on record
for the future.” Remarkably, Simms
went on to explain this bid for future acclaim: “I regard my career as pretty well over, and
wish now to revise and make myself as worthy as possible in the eyes ... |
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Poetry and the PracticalSpeech | The University of Arkansas Press | 1996 Poetry and the Practical was published
in 1996 by The University of Arkansas Press as part of The Simms Series. Edited with an introduction and notes by
James Everett Kibler Jr., the book contains a lecture written by Simms between
the years of 1851-54, which expanded from one to three parts. Kibler summarizes the lecture as “a clear,
forceful, inspired defense of poetry against those who would relegate it to the
margins of life.”[1] In a 12 November 1850 letter to Evert Augustus
Duyckinck, Simms made first mention of the lecture: “I recieve [sic] another application for a public
Lecture ... |
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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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South-Carolina in the Revolutionary WarReviews/Essays | Walker & James, Publishers | 1853 Throughout his life, William
Gilmore Simms was deeply invested in researching and interpreting the history
of the American Revolution and was particularly concerned with promoting the
participation of his native South Carolina in that conflict. As evidenced by his biographies of Francis
Marion and Nathanael Greene, his series of epic romances of the Revolution
largely set in South Carolina, and his emphasis on the Revolution in his The History of South Carolina, Simms’s
understanding of South Carolina’s role in the conflict was one of patriotism
and heroic self-sacrifice. ... |
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Southward Ho! A Spell of SunshineNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854
William
Gilmore Simms assembled his 1854 Southward
Ho! A Spell of Sunshine largely out
of his various periodical fiction publications, many from the late 1840s. Often categorized as one of the author's
novels, the work is organized as a collection of short stories unified by the
central narrative conceit of a group of storytelling passengers on a sea voyage
from New York to Charleston.[1] The travelers pass the time by sharing
stories of their homes or other familiar (usually southern) locales. Because of this organization, John C. Guilds
says the text exhibits ... |