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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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A Supplement to the Plays of William ShakspeareDrama | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1848 Well-known as a poet, cultural
critic, and novelist, William Gilmore Simms’s undertaking of an edited volume
of Shakespearean apocrypha seems, at first, odd and atypical. Yet, throughout his long career, Simms
displayed a real interest in the theatre, attempting, often unsuccessfully, to
write and stage plays. His
correspondence also shows a recurring concern with the opinions and evaluations
of the great Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest, for whom Simms wrote several
dramas, none of which were ever staged.[1] Taking into account the author’s deep and
abiding interest ... |
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AreytosPoetry | John Russell | 1846 Published
in 1846 by John Russell in Charleston, SC, Areytos
was also titled Songs of the South, because
all the poems dealt with subject matter related to the southern United States. Many had been published previously in various
periodicals.[1]
Simms issued this collection on the heels of his Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies. A Collection of Sonnets.[2] Thinking of himself primarily as a poet and
wanting to secure his place as one of America’s best, he followed the
publications of Grouped Thoughts
(1845) and Areytos (1846) with five
other volumes of poetry, all published ... |
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As Good as a Comedy and Paddy McGannNovel (Romance) | U of South Carolina P | 1972 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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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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Atalantis; A Story of the Sea.Poetry | Carey and Hart | 1849
Though the first edition of Atalantis.
A Story of the Sea (1832) was well received by reviewers both North
and South, it had only one printing. The
limited print run of just 500 copies meant that relatively few readers could
enjoy the many “uncommonly strong and vigorous passages” that comprised William
Gilmore Simms’s fanciful tale.[1] Simms was early convinced that a larger
readership existed and that Atalantis offered
him an opportunity to increase his reputation in both the Northern states and
Europe. In 1837 he wrote to James
Lawson, one of his best friends ... |
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Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts.Poetry | J. & J. Harper | 1832
William
Gilmore Simms published Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts in the
fall of 1832. While Simms’s name does
not appear anywhere on or in the text, it is unlikely that he sought any type
of anonymity in its publication. Within
weeks of its appearing in print a reviewer in the Charleston Courier announced, “It is attributed to the pen of our
fellow-townsman, William Gilmore Simms, Esq.…”[1] Even without such prompting anyone familiar
with Simms’s work would have quickly recognized his authorship, because the
opening sonnet was one that he had previously ... |
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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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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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Benedict Arnold: The Traitor. A Drama, In An EssayDrama | 1863 Throughout Simms’s career, one of his paramount concerns was
the connection between art and history, and the role of the literary artist in conveying
history. While readers see Simms
exploring these connections in his Revolutionary Romances, other scattered
works of fiction, and the essays in Views
and Reviews, one of the writer’s most intriguing presentations of the ability
of art to interpret history is in the genre-mixing Benedict Arnold: The Traitor. A Drama, in an Essay. Critic Miriam J. Shillingsburg regards Benedict Arnold as worthy of
commendation for its “thoughtful ... |
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Biographical Sketch From the Life of M.C.M. HammondBiography | 1876 Biographical Sketch from the Life of M.C.M. Hammond is a brief
memorial pamphlet commemorating the life and service of Marcus Claudius
Marcellus Hammond, the middle brother of the Hammond family with whom Simms was
so closely connected. Collected on the
occasion of Hammond’s 23 January 1876 death, this volume consists of three
distinct parts. The first two of these
parts are biographical sketches of Hammond, one by Simms, and one by Brigadier
General Benjamin Alvord, who served with Hammond in the Mexican-American War. The
third section of the work is a brief memorial ... |
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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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Border Beagles: A Tale of MississippiNovel (Romance) | Carey and Hart | 1840 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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Carl Werner, An Imaginative Story; with Other Tales of ImaginationShort Stories | George Adlard | 1838 Carl Werner was published in December 1838 by George Adlard of New
York.[1] In the author’s advertisement, Simms classified
the collected stories as “moral imaginative” tales, a form of allegory
illuminating the “strifes between the rival moral principles of good and evil.”
Such stories, according to John C. Guilds,
may often exploit supernatural elements, although it is not necessary. Simms attributed the origin of the title
story to “an ancient monkish legend,” as he set “Carl Werner” in the deepest parts
of the German forest where the narrator and his friend ... |
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Castle Dismal; or, The Bachelor's ChristmasNovella | Burgess, Stringer & Co. | 1844 A gothic tale of ghosts, infidelity,
murder, and love, Castle Dismal follows
the protagonist Ned Clifton, a “veteran bachelor” who fears the bonds of
marriage, in his holiday visit to the home of married friends. Set during the Christmas season in South Carolina,
Simms’s story illustrates the southern custom of bringing together family
around a table to feast; and while Clifton eventually marries Elizabeth
Singleton—freeing him from the “melancholy dependencies of bachelorism”—Simms
subverts naïve nineteenth-century notions of marriage and domesticity.[1] Marked ... |
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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, ... |