Sea-gift
Edwin W. Fuller's 1873 novel of student life at the University of North Carolina, published in New York by E. J. Hale & Son. Its settings include Chapel Hill and Wilmington.
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Edwin Wiley Fuller
Edwin Wiley Fuller entered the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1864 and studied two years in Chapel Hill. His novel Sea-Gift (1873) was the first novel set in part in the town, and it used the Dromgoole legend of a duel fought near Piney Prospect.
Also found in catalogs as Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller.
1847–1876 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Sea-gift a novel
Edwin W. Fuller's nineteenth-century novel follows John Smith, a young North Carolinian, from his childhood and family circumstances through his student years at the University of North Carolina, with parts of the story set in Wilmington and during the Civil War. The Chapel Hill chapters are an early fictional picture of student social life at the antebellum university. Electronic edition issued 2001 by the Academic Affairs Library for Documenting the American South.
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Fuller, Edwin (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)
Newspaper clippings about Edwin Fuller, in an undated folder from box 3 of the Individuals and Families series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
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The University of North Carolina in Edwin Fuller's 1873 novel, Sea-gift
E. T. Malone, Jr. writes on the way the University of North Carolina appears in Sea-gift, the 1873 novel by Edwin Wiley Fuller, 1847-1876. Published in 1976 as pages 288 to 302 of its parent volume, with illustrations and a portrait, with a bibliography. Topics include Fuller, the novel, and Chapel Hill students in literature.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fuller, Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1876.
Papers,
Papers of Jones Fuller, broker and merchant of Louisburg, his son Edwin Wiley Fuller, the poet and novelist, and their cousin William George Thomas, a Wilmington physician: 1,322 items from 1810, mostly 1840 to 1870. Letters discuss American literature, secession, the war and the blockade, Reconstruction and cotton, with UNC, the University of Virginia and Louisburg College among the schools. Edwin Fuller wrote 'The Angel in the Cloud'.
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Edwin W. Fuller studies at the university in Chapel Hill Fuller entered the university as a freshman in the fall of 1864 and studied two years in Chapel Hill before going home to Louisburg to help in his father's business.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Edwin W. Fuller (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1876
- Fuller's Sea-Gift, the first novel set partly in Chapel Hill, is published Fuller turned his student years into Sea-Gift, which follows John Smith through the university and the Civil War and draws on the Dromgoole duel legend of Piney Prospect. Students later called it the Freshman's Bible.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Edwin W. Fuller (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1876
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- Background context: NCpedia: Edwin Wiley Fuller NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
- Background context: Historical marker E-77: Edwin Wiley Fuller NC Highway Historical Marker Poet and novelist, 1847-1876, born in Louisburg. Wrote The Angel in the Cloud and Sea Gift. House is 4 blocks West.
- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 5 Orange County pages naming Edwin W. Fuller DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
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