Katharine Walton
        Or, the Rebel of Dorchester
        
        
         William Gilmore Simms 
          introduction by David Moltke-Hansen and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld 
        
          
            
              Paperback
                 978-1-61117-063-4
                Published: Jul 24 2014  
             
            
            
           
          
          
          
          
          
          
			
          
			
            The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of 
             
           
         
        
        
          
          
             Set in September of 1780, Katharine Walton is the third installment of a trilogy that follows The Partisan and Mellichampe in covering the Revolution in South Carolina. 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. The unifying power of Charleston at the center of Katharine Walton: Or, the Rebel of Dorchester contributes to the book's sense of structure and wholeness of purpose. This in addition to a fully realized female title character make Katharine Walton one of Simms's greatest achievements.