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Beauchampe; or, The Kentucky TragedyAntebellum Period | Novel (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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Border Beagles: A Tale of MississippiAntebellum Period | Novel (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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Charlemont; or, The Pride of the VillageAntebellum Period | Novel (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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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic StoryAntebellum Period | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 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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Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and ContemplativeAntebellum Period | Poetry | Redfield | 1853 William Gilmore Simms’s ultimate ambition for his
collected poetical works titled Poems:
Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative was limited to
posterity. Unlike most of his literary
efforts, it was not a money-making operation.
He wrote his friend B.F. Perry in January 1852, “my hope &
expectation are not profit. I seek only to put myself fully on record
for the future.” Remarkably, Simms
went on to explain this bid for future acclaim: “I regard my career as pretty well over, and
wish now to revise and make myself as worthy as possible in the eyes ... |
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Southward Ho! A Spell of SunshineAntebellum Period | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854
William
Gilmore Simms assembled his 1854 Southward
Ho! A Spell of Sunshine largely out
of his various periodical fiction publications, many from the late 1840s. Often categorized as one of the author's
novels, the work is organized as a collection of short stories unified by the
central narrative conceit of a group of storytelling passengers on a sea voyage
from New York to Charleston.[1] The travelers pass the time by sharing
stories of their homes or other familiar (usually southern) locales. Because of this organization, John C. Guilds
says the text exhibits ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicAntebellum Period | 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 Wigwam and the CabinAntebellum Period | Short Stories | Redfield | 1856 Originally
published by Wiley and Putnam in two volumes—the first series in October 1845 and
the second in February 1846—for the Library of American Books series, The Wigwam and the Cabin is a collection
of border stories about the southwestern frontier. Simms best summarized the collection in a
dedicatory letter to his father-in-law for the 1856 Redfield edition: “One word
for the material of these legends. It is
local, sectional—and to be national
in literature, one must needs be sectional. No one mind can fully or fairly illustrate
the characteristics of any great ... |
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