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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 1Era of the Early Republic | Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 1952 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
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Voltmeier; or, The Mountain MenEra of the Early Republic | Novel (Romance) | U of South Carolina P | 1969 Judging
by a letter he wrote to his friend Evert Augustus Duyckinck in December 1868,
William Gilmore Simms considered Voltmeier,
his forthcoming Mountain Romance, to be, “in some respects, one of the most
remarkable books I have ever written,” and “among the most excellent of my
prose writings.”[1] Part of the Border Romance series, the novel was
inspired by the story of the infamous Allen Twitty, “a highly respected member
of a prominent family noted for public service,” whose indictment and
sensational trials for counterfeiting between 1805 and 1815 became a cause
célèbre ... |