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Charleston: The Palmetto City. An EssayAntebellum Period | Travel Writings | Harper & Brothers; Southern Studies Program, University of South Carolina | 1857, 1976 Charleston: The Palmetto City is a 1976 pamphlet republication of
an essay of the same name, originally published anonymously by Simms in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in June
1857.[1] The pamphlet edition of this essay is a
facsimile of the original Harper’s
piece. In the essay, a rare example of
the author’s travel writing, Simms focused on the architecture and geography of
his native city, descriptions that are complimented by detailed illustrations
of many of the most significant of Charleston’s buildings and memorials.[2] While a minor work, the essay ... |
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Flirtation at the Moultrie HouseAntebellum Period | Novella | 1850 One of
Simms’s minor works, the epistolary novella, Flirtation at the Moultrie House, presents an interesting picture
of society life in mid-century Charleston.
Mary Ann Wimsatt notes that Flirtation,
published as a pamphlet in 1850 by Edward C. Councell of Charleston, shows
Simms’s “growing talent for brisk descriptions of city life,” while Simms
biographer John C. Guilds notes the satiric success of the work: “Not only is Flirtation of interest because it represents a type of fiction
almost wholly different from that characteristically associated with the
prolific ... |
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The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John's, BerkeleyAntebellum Period | Novella | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Published by Walker &
Richards in 1852, The Golden Christmas is
novella of social manners set in the lowcountry of Berkeley County near Charleston, South Carolina. Geography is
of central importance to both the book itself and the story within. Charleston, as the home of the author, the
setting of the story, and the location of the publisher and printer is as much
the focus of the work as any characters or details of plot; in a 2005
introduction to the novella, critic David Aiken claims that The Golden Christmas “today provides one
of the most comprehensive and accurate ... |