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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story.Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1841 Building
out of his early experiences with writing in the psychological gothic mode in
such texts as Martin Faber (1833) and
Carl Werner (1838) and anticipating
his later work Castle Dismal (1844), William
Gilmore Simms published Confesssion; or, The Blind Heart in 1841. Coming at the front of what many consider to
be the author’s most productive period, this novel is the extended confession
of Edward Clifford who is orphaned at a young age and sent to be reared by his
aunt and uncle in Charleston. Rising
above his foster parents’ scorn, Clifford becomes a lawyer, a prominent
citizen, ... |
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Father Abbot, or, The Home Tourist; a MedleyJournalism | 1849
Father Abbot collects together a series
of related political fictions Simms wrote for the Charleston Mercury from September to November 1849.[1] Here, the author revealed his significant wit
and complex thinking about social, political, and philosophical issues through
the perambulations of the titular Father Abbot about Charleston and its
environs. As Father Abbot travels
around the city with various companions, its economic and political future are
discussed; this conceit allowed Simms to use his satirical gifts to create a
humorous, yet biting, commentary on the socioeconomic ... |
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The Book of My Lady: A MelangeMiscellany | Key & Biddle | 1833 While a minor work overall in
the Simms canon, The Book of My Lady: A
Melange, published in 1833 by Key & Biddle of Philadelphia, is
nevertheless an important text. Here,
Simms presents several stories that appear in later works, positioning The Book of My Lady as an interesting
transitional work. This collection of
nineteen stories and ten poems also provides a clear glimpse of the influence
of Romanticism on Simms, particularly in his thinking about the complex
relationships between art, history, and nationality—subjects that would
fascinate the author throughout ... |
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The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson with a Memoir of His LifeDocuments | O. A. Roorback | 1833 One of Simms’s most personal
works, The Remains of Maynard Davis
Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good
friend Richardson’s premature death at the age of 20 on 12 October 1832. While details about their friendship remain scarce,
it is known that Richardson accompanied Simms on the writer’s first trip to the
North,[1]
and Simms dedicated his long 1832 narrative poem Atalantis to him, referring to the younger man’s “high moral and
intellectual worth” in his dedicatory note.
The families of the two men had been long acquainted ... |
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The Lily and the Totem, or, The Huguenots in FloridaFrench Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Baker and Scribner | 1850 While it largely fell out of the
public consciousness after the author’s death, Simms’s The Lily and the Totem is one of his most intriguing works, both
because of its overall quality and its experimentation with the possibilities
of mixing history and fiction. While The Lily and the Totem is a story of
French Huguenots in sixteenth-century Florida, it is not, importantly, a
historical romance. Rather, Simms here
experimented with a new way in which to relate history—by telling history
through fictionalized narratives that fill in the gaps between what we do and
do ... |
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Pelayo: A Story of the GothMedieval History | Novel (Romance) | Harper & Brothers | 1838 By the late 1830s, Simms’s
reputation and fame were on a steady rise; on the
strength of romances like The Yemassee and
The Partisan, Simms was widely
regarded as one of antebellum America’s finest writers. At this point, the always self-conscious
novelist made one of the more curious decisions of his literary career by
reworking a piece of verse-drama juvenilia into the novel Pelayo: A Story of the Goth,
published in two volumes by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1838. In writing Pelayo, Simms left the romantic epics of America’s history and
frontier on which ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicMedieval 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 Life of the Chevalier BayardMedieval 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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A Supplement to the Plays of William ShakspeareEarly Modern History | Drama | 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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Donna Florida. A Tale.Early Modern History | Poetry | Burges and James | 1843 Donna Florida is a narrative poem dealing with Ponce de Leon's exploits in what would later become Spanish Florida. Before full publication in 1843, portions of the poem appeared in The Boston Monthly
in 1841 and in the February-May 1843 issues of the Magnolia.[1] Simms more than likely paid for the
publication of this work in book form himself, with the volume being issued in
1843 by Burges and James in Charleston, SC.[2] Simms
described the work as not “published, but presented for private distribution.”[3] Indeed, according to a 29 June 1843 letter
that Simms sent ... |
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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 | 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 Social PrincipleEarly Modern History | Speech | The Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama | 1843 William Gilmore Simms delivered his lecture The Social Principle: The True Source of National Permanence to the Erosophic Society[1] at the University of Alabama on 13 December 1842 during the occasion of his receiving an honorary LL.D. degree from that university.[2] An important text in Simms studies, this oration marks “Simms’s single most extensive published exposition of his social philosophy.”[3] He took as the genesis for his talk what he perceived as the fundamentally changed nature of the environs of western Alabama from his previous visit to the area, ... |
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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 ... |
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The Geography of South CarolinaBritish Colonial History | History | Babcock & Co. | 1843
The
Geography of South Carolina, written as a companion piece for the 1842 edition of The History of South Carolina, was
published by Babcock & Co. in 1843.
Simms conceived of The History
and The Geography as parts of a
single project and initially desired the two books to be published together in
one volume.[1] Sean R. Busick notes that such a publication
was cost-prohibitive; thus, The History
and The Geography were published
separately.[2] In the preface to The Geography, Simms suggests another reason for their
separate publication: by breaking
up his subject ... |
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The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia.British Colonial History | Biography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1847 The Life of Captain John Smith was
published by George F. Cooledge & Brother in March 1847 as part of The Illustrated Library series intended
for school libraries and general reading.[1] Simms’s letters indicate that he began the
biography as early as November 1844 when he wrote to George Frederick Holmes:
“I have half contracted to prepare a Life of Sumter, one of Paul Jones, and a
third of John Smith, with a new edition of his history of Virginia.”[2] By the middle of the month Simms informed
James Lawson he had already “written a chapter.” The process of getting ... |
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The Sources of American IndependenceBritish Colonial History | Speech | The Town Council of Aiken, SC | 1844
The Sources of
American Independence. An Oration, on the Sixty-Ninth Anniversary of American
Independence was delivered by William Gilmore Simms on 4 July 1844 in
Aiken, SC. As its long title suggests,
the speech was composed to celebrate the sixty-nine years of American
nationhood since the Declaration of Independence; what is unmentioned in the
title but equally relevant to an understanding of this work is the fact that it
was composed essentially as a stump speech[1]
during Simms’s successful 1844 run for a seat in the South Carolina State
Legislature. Giving a speech ... |
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The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina.British Colonial History | 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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EutawRevolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856
Eutaw,
published by Redfield on 19 April 1856, is the sequel to The Forayers,
and the penultimate romance in Simms's Revolutionary War saga[1]. It completes the story of the British withdrawal
from their outpost at Ninety-Six, including the battle of Eutaw Springs, the
last major engagement of the Carolina theatre, and its aftermath. Simms’s biographer John Caldwell Guilds notes
that it is necessary to understand Eutaw as a sequel, as it was “not a
new venture but the extension and completion of a scheme which kept expanding
in the author's fertile imagination.”[2] ... |
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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of DorchesterRevolutionary History | Novel (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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Katharine Walton; or, The Rebel of Dorchester. An Historical Romance of the Revolution in Carolina.Revolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | A. Hart | 1851 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 SanteeRevolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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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Mellichampe: A Legend of the SanteeRevolutionary History | Novel (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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Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth PinckneyRevolutionary History | Poetry | 1825
In 1825, a nineteen-year-old Simms published his first major work, Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, and thus took his initial step toward establishing
himself as one of the leading literary voices in Charleston. His work at this time, and especially in this
long poem, pointed to intellectual concerns that would follow him throughout
his literary career. Monody was published during one of
Simms’s first periods of sustained literary labor, his acting as editor of the Album: A Weekly Miscellany, a magazine
first published on 2 July 1825, and then every Saturday for the rest ... |
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South-Carolina in the Revolutionary WarRevolutionary History | Reviews/Essays | Walker & James, Publishers | 1853 Throughout his life, William
Gilmore Simms was deeply invested in researching and interpreting the history
of the American Revolution and was particularly concerned with promoting the
participation of his native South Carolina in that conflict. As evidenced by his biographies of Francis
Marion and Nathanael Greene, his series of epic romances of the Revolution
largely set in South Carolina, and his emphasis on the Revolution in his The History of South Carolina, Simms’s
understanding of South Carolina’s role in the conflict was one of patriotism
and heroic self-sacrifice. ... |