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- Time period: Civil War and Early Reconstruction (x)
- Audience: Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Association (x)
- Places of publication: Charleston, SC (x)
The Sense of the Beautiful.Speech | Agricultural Society of South Carolina | 1870 Simms delivered The Sense of the Beautiful, his final
public oration, on May 3, 1870, a little over a month before his death.[1] The occasion was the first Floral Fair
held by the Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a group
that would merge in August with the older and recently revived Agricultural
Society of South Carolina. In his
speech, Simms stressed the importance of natural beauty, a harmonious home
life, and female leadership. He praised
the spiritual value of the natural world and claimed that a stable domestic
sphere was a precondition for the progress ... |
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