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Scrapbook AScrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook BScrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook CScrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook DScrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook E (Part I)Scrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook E (Part II)Scrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook F (Part I)Scrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook F (Part II)Scrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Scrapbook GScrapbook William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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South Caroliniana Library Collection of W.G. Simms Physical MaterialsPhysical Materials The curation and digitization of the South Caroliniana Library
Collection of William Gilmore Simms Physical Materials represents an evolution
in the Simms Initiatives mission: in
addition to making digitally accessible Simms's literary productions, this
collection makes available various materials of iconography and realia that
help to situate Simms, and his works, within the personal and historical
contexts of the author’s life and times. These materials also provide
researchers with intriguing examples of the ways in which Simms’s life and work
were preserved by, and influential ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicHistory | Redfield | 1860 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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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 ... |
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The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a RepublicHistory | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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The Damsel of DarienNovel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1839 The Damsel of Darien was published in
two volumes in 1839. Simms first mentioned
the story to James Lawson in a 2 September 1838 letter, revealing that he
“wrote during the first part of the summer some 150 pages of a new novel &
there it sticks.”[1] Simms informed Lawson in January of 1839 that
Damsel would be published with Lea
& Blanchard of Philadelphia, who would pay $1000 for a first edition of
3,000 copies; in the meantime, Simms was busy revising the “numerous errors of
history & geography” committed while composing the first volume of the story.[2] ... |
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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 ... |
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Joscelyn: A Tale of the RevolutionNovel (Romance) | U of South Carolina P | 1975 Although written and
published last among his eight Revolutionary novels in 1867, Joscelyn should be
placed first in the series chronologically, for it lays out the preliminaries
and “origins of this partisan conflict.”[1] Set in the final six months of 1775, the
romance depicts the beginnings of the Revolutionary conflict between patriots
and loyalists in the backcountries of Georgia and South Carolina. Simms mixed
historical figures, such as William Henry Drayton and Thomas Browne, with
fictional ones to illustrate the dramatic tensions and implications of the
early partisan ... |
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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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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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The Forayers; or, The Raid of the Dog-DaysNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1855
Simms
biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes that, in 1855, Simms would "enter a
four-year period marked not by the exuberance and the surging creative force of
the young Simms, but rather by an artistic imagination tempered and refined by
maturity and experience."[1]
The first major product of this new period was The Forayers, another in
Simms's series of revolutionary romances, published by Redfield in 1855. The Forayers is concerned with the
British army's retreat from its outpost at Ninety-Six, and explores the events
leading up the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781; ... |
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The Partisan: A Tale of the RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1835
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution (1835) was the first composed of Simms’s
series of romances about the Revolutionary War, though the second in the
series’ overall chronology. The Partisan was also the
first of a “trilogy” of closely-related novels within Simms’s overall
Revolutionary War saga, sharing characters and other links with Mellichampe (1836)
and Katherine Walton (1851).[1] The
novel deals with the 1780 Battle of Camden and its aftermath, especially the
guerilla warfare tactics employed by “The Swamp Fox,” General Francis Marion,
and other ... |
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The Partisan: A Romance of the RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution (1835) was the first composed of Simms’s
series of romances about the Revolutionary War, though the second in the
series’ overall chronology. The Partisan was also the
first of a “trilogy” of closely-related novels within Simms’s overall
Revolutionary War saga, sharing characters and other links with Mellichampe (1836)
and Katherine Walton (1851).[1] The
novel deals with the 1780 Battle of Camden and its aftermath, especially the
guerilla warfare tactics employed by “The Swamp Fox,” General Francis Marion,
and other ... |
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The Kinsmen; or, the Black Riders of Congaree. A Tale.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1841 William Gilmore Simms’s third novel of the Revolutionary
War (though fifth in order of plot chronology) was originally published in 1841
under the title The Kinsmen. It became an early offering as part of the
Redfield edition under its more popularly-known title The Scout in 1854. A novel
of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of
patriotism across classes, The Scout
opens shortly after the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (aka the Second Battle of
Camden)[1] in May 1781. The action ends with the British departure
from the Star Fort at Ninety ... |
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The Scout; or, the Black Riders of Congaree.Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 William Gilmore Simms’s third novel of the Revolutionary
War (though fifth in order of plot chronology) was originally published in 1841
under the title The Kinsmen. It became an early offering as part of the
Redfield edition under its more popularly-known title The Scout in 1854. A novel
of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of
patriotism across classes, The Scout
opens shortly after the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (aka the Second Battle of
Camden)[1] in May 1781. The action ends with the British departure
from the Star Fort at Ninety ... |
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Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky Tragedy. A Tale of Passion.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1842 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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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, ... |