Novels
Full-Length Novels
Riches Without Wings or, The Cleveland Family
(Boston: G.W. Light, 1838)
The Western Captive, or The Times of Tecumseh: A Tale
(New York: J. Winchester 1842). [Followed in September 1845 by an “illustration” of a passage from the novel in Graham’s Magaizine, an engraving by James Smillie (1807-1885) introduced here. A free copy of the original newspaper version is here, and Hathitrust has a better one here, but be warned, these editions will break your eyes. Better to purchase Caroline Woidat’s edition from Broadview (2015).]
The SALAMANDER, Found AmONgst the Papers of the Late Ernest HElfenstein, edited by Elizabeth Oakes Smith
(New York: G.P. Putnam, 1848)
The Newsboy
(New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 1854).
Bertha and LIlY; or, The Parsonage of Beech Glen: A Romance
(New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co. 1854).
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Serialized Novels
**The Remapo Pass: A Story of the Revolution, serialized in Neal's Saturday Gazette and Lady's Literary Museum
(Philadelphia: Cummings and Peterson), January 29, 1848 and February 5, 1848).
The Intercepted MEssenger of Ramapo Pass
[Republication, with a new introduction, of The Remapo Pass, Emerson's United States Magazine 3, no. 2 (1856): 115-125 and 225-235.]
The Two Wives
Serialized in The Herald of Health: A Journal of Physical Culture 15 and 16, (January-November 1870).
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Dime Novels
The Bald Eagle, or The Last of the Ramapaughs: A Romance of Revolutionary Times
(New York: Beadle and Adams, 1867). [Earlier versions listed above The Remapo Pass: A Story of the Revolution. Then as “The Intercepted Messenger of Ramapo Pass”]
The Sagamore of Saco
(New York: Beadle and Adams, 1868). [Originally published in story form, Graham’s Magazine 33: 47-55.]
Unpublished Novels
“The Queen of Tramps” (~1874-1888)
A very rough typescript of the manuscript for scholarly use is available here.
MSS of the Queen of Tramps, listed in the catalog of the collection at UVa as "The Queen of Trumps." Running more than 350 pages, the manuscript involves a female protagonist who abandons her possessions and takes to the road as a female tramp. It is notable that the signature on the title page is clearly that of a later period.
[”Rachel vaughn”] (~1885?)
MSS of this work is untitled (missing first page) in the Oakes Smith papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
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