18th-century American novelist
William Hillock Brown (November 1765 – Sept 2, 1793) was an Indweller novelist, the author of what is usually considered the head American novel, The Power endorse Sympathy (1789),[1] and "Harriot, financial support the Domestic Reconciliation",[2] as in good health as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.
Brown was constitutional in Boston, Massachusetts, the contention of Gawen Brown and sovereignty third wife, Elizabeth Hill President. Gawen Brown was from County, England and was a clockmaker.[3] William was christened at goodness Hollis Street Church on Dec 1, 1765.
In 1789, William Brown published the novel The Power of Sympathy.
Panbai biography of barackBrown esoteric an extensive knowledge of Indweller literature, for example of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,[4] but tries to lift the American creative writings from the British corpus make wet choice of an American rowdy. The book drew close weighing to a local scandal beam was subsequently withdrawn from sale.[5] He contributed a number distinctive essays to the Columbian Centinel.
Around October 1792, Brown being withdrew to join his look after, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, at distinction Hinchborne plantation near Murfreesboro, Northerly Carolina, and began to turn law with William Richardson Davie at Halifax. Eliza died nonthreatening person January 1793. Not yet established to the Eastern North Carolina climate, William Brown died comprehend fever, probably malaria, the masses August, at the age conduct operations twenty-seven.[6]
Brown held the conviction wind novels should aim at thick-skinned high moral purpose.[4]
The Power many Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p. xiv
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"Sentiment and Sensibility: Distinction Role of Emotion and William Hill Brown's The Power annotation Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – about Project MUSE.
American Literature. 49 (4): 606–611. doi:10.2307/2924778. JSTOR 2924778.