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The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial RomanceBritish Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1859 The Cassique of Kiawah, thought by many critics of
Simms’s own time and several modern scholars to be the author’s best work, is a
colonial romance about the early days of Charleston. Setting the book in
the 1680s, Simms robustly describes the competing claims of the English and
Spanish over Charleston and its environs, including the attendant violence and
actions of Spanish pirates and English privateers. In so doing, he
presents a vision of Charleston that was not genteel and sophisticated, but
rather raucous and frontier-like; Simms thus usedThe Cassique of Kiawah to
critique ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicBritish Colonial 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 Wigwam and the CabinBritish Colonial History | 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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The Yemassee: A Romance of CarolinaBritish Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 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 ... |