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Martin Faber and Other TalesEarly Modern History | Short Stories | Harper & Brothers | 1837 One of the most important works
in Simms’s development as a writer, Martin
Faber has a long and intriguing publication history. Originally published as a novella by J. &
J. Harper of New York in 1833, it was revised and expanded for re-publication,
alongside nine other short stories and a poem, as Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal, and Other Tales, issued by
Harper & Brothers in 1837.[1] Simms biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
the significance of Martin Faber for the
author, as its writing and Simms’s hopes for it, seemed to seriously alter his
life in his late ... |
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The Damsel of DarienEarly Modern History | Novel (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 History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicEarly Modern History | History | 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 History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a RepublicEarly Modern History | History | 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 Life of the Chevalier BayardEarly Modern History | Biography | 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 Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems.Early Modern History | Poetry | James S. Burges, 44 Queen Street | 1829
The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems, Simms's fourth separate
publication, was issued in the summer of
1829. Like his three previous works,
it is a volume of poetry. Comprised primarily of the three long poems “The Vision of Cortes,” “Cain,” and “Ashley River,” the volume also contains a number of shorter works, some of which had been previously published in other venues. The subject
matter of the volume ranges widely, moving from the title poem, which recalls in verse the 1518
expedition of Hernán
Cortés into Mexico,
to an ode to South Carolina’s ... |