Author: William Hill Brown
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440674205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.