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The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |
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The Tri-Color; or The Three Days of Blood in Paris. With Some Other PiecesPoetry | Wigfall & Davis, Strand | c. 1831
William Gilmore Simms published The Tri-Color; or
the Three Days of Blood, in Paris. With Some Other Pieces in
the winter of 1830 or the spring of 1831. He did so anonymously, and
the advertisement at the front of the text says simply, “The Work, now offered
to the notice of the British Public, is by an American Citizen.” Though
Simms told James Lawson that he did not “wish to be known as its author for a
variety of reasons,” he did list it among his publications multiple times
within his letters.[1] James Kibler suggests that one
reason that Simms may have ... |
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The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina.Novel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835 The Yemassee is historically the best known of
the long fictions of William Gilmore Simms.
Set on the South Carolina frontier, Simms’s third book-length fiction
treats the Yemassee War of 1715-17, when the Yemassee Indians, with their
Spanish and Native American allies, attacked the low country colonial
settlements. Writing in the midst of the
removal of natives from east of the Mississippi to the newly created Indian
Territory in the future Oklahoma, Simms emphasized such motives for the war as
the colonists’ need for land, the conflict between rival European powers ... |