Horse-Shoe Robinson

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Horse-Shoe Robinson
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Major Butler and Horseshoe Robinson
AuthorJohn P. Kennedy
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPhiladelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard / New York: Wiley and Long
Publication date
1835
Pages2 vol. (1835 U.S.); 3 vol. (1835 U.K.)

Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency is an 1835 novel by John P. Kennedy that was a popular seller in its day.[1][2]

The novel was Kennedy's second, and proved to be his most popular. It is a work of historical romance of the American Revolution, set in the western mountain areas of the Carolinas and Virginia,[3] culminating at the Battle of Kings Mountain.[4][5]

The primary characters of the novel include Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, General Charles Cornwallis, Horseshoe Robinson (so named because he was originally a blacksmith), Mary Musgrove and her lover John Ramsay, Henry and Mildred Lyndsay (patriots), Mildred's lover Arthur Butler (who she secretly marries), and Habershaw with his gang of rogues and Indians.[6]

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The novel was adapted for the stage a number of times, but the best known were by Charles Dance in 1836, which starred actor James Henry Hackett, and a version created in 1856 by titled Horseshoe Robinson, or the Battle of King's Mountain, which included William Ellis as Robinson and George C. Boniface as Major Arthur Butler.[7][8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ Hart, James D. The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste, p. 305 (1951)
  2. ^ (July 1835) Literary Notices (book review), The Knickerbocker, Vol. VI, No. 1, p. 71
  3. ^ Lemon, Armistead. Summary, in Documenting the American South website, Retrieved 8 December 2014
  4. ^ (November 1835). Critical Notices (book review), The Western Monthly Magazine, p. 350
  5. ^ (September 1835). Miscellaneous Notices (book review), The American Quarterly Review, Vol. 18, pp. 240-42
  6. ^ Warner, Charles Dudley, ed. Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol. XXX, p.269 (1898)
  7. ^ Burt, Daniel S. The Chronology of American Literature, p. 205 (2004)
  8. ^ Bank, Rosemarie. Frontier Melodrama, in Ogden, Dunbar H. et al., Theatre West: Image and Impact, pp. 151-52 (1990)
  9. ^ Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, p. 317 (2004)

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